Canada’s Commitments and Responsibilities under the American Convention on Human Rights

Canada has not signed or ratified the Convention or the optional protocols. (Ratification of the optional protocols is only open to States that have ratified the Convention.)

Canada, however, is party to several Inter-American legal instruments including the:

• Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Political Rights to Women
  (ratified in 1991);
• Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Civil Rights to Women (ratified in 1991);
• Agreement Establishing the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (accepted in 1993);
• Inter-American Convention on Serving Criminal Sentences Abroad (ratified in 1995);
• Inter-American Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters (ratified in 1996); and
• Inter-American Convention Against Corruption (ratified in 1996).