Ratified conventions by United States of America
- 1955 - 2nd Geneva Convention For the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea
- 1955 - 3rd Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
- 1955 - 4th Geneva Convention relative to the protection of civilian persons in time of war
- 1955 - 1st Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field
- 1968 - Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees
- 1988 - Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
- 1992 - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- 1994 - International Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- 1994 - Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- 1997 - Convention on the Prohibition of the development, production, stockpilling and use of chemical weapons
- 2002 - Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict
- 2002 - Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution, and Child Pornography
- Signature 1977 - American Convention on Human Rights
- Signature 1977 - International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Signature 1977 - Additional Protocol Relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts
- Signature 1977 - Additional Protocol Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts
- Signature 1980 - Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women
- Signature 1995 - Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Signature 2000 - Statute of the International Criminal Court