Zambia
| Legal Instrument | Signed | Ratified | Deposited | |
| AU Convention Governing Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa | 10/09/1969 | 30/07/1973 | 15/08/1973 | |
| African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance | 31/01/2010 | 31/05/2011 | 08/07/2011 | |
| African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights | 17/01/1983 | 10/01/1984 | 02/02/1984 | |
| African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child | 28/02/1992 | |||
| Constitutive Act of the African Union | 12/07/2000 | 21/02/2001 | 01/03/2001 | |
| Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment | ||||
| Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Establishment of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights | 09/06/1998 | |||
| Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa | 03/08/2005 | 02/05/2006 | 07/06/2006 | |
| United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment | 07/10/1998 |