Canada

OSCE Participating State since 25 June 1973
Member State of the United Nations since 9 November 1945
Observer to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe since 29 May 1996
Observer to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 28 May 1997

Status of Ratification of the Main International Human Rights Treaties, Conventions and other instruments

Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty (1991)	25 November 2005
Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Organised Crime (2004)	13 May 2002
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (2003)	13 May 2002

UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (2003)	13 May 2002
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings (2001)	03 April 2002
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (2002)	19 February 2002
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (2002)	07 July 2000
Convention on the Rights of the Child (1990)	13 December 1991
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1987)	24 June 1987
International Convention against Taking of Hostages (1983)	04 December 1985
Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons (1985)	01 September 1985
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1981)	10 December 1981
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1969)	14 October 1970
Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (1954)	04 June 1969
Convention on the Political Rights of Women (1954)	30 January 1957