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Global Status of OPCAT Ratification |
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There are currently 50 States Parties and 24 Signatories* to the Optional Protocol 
| 50 States Parties | | 24 Signatories*
| | Albania | 01 October 2003 | Australia
| 19 May 2009
| | | | Austria
| 25 September 2003
| Argentina
| 15 November 2004
| Belgium
| 24 October 2005
| Armenia
| 14 September 2006 | Burkina Faso | 21 September 2005 | | | | Cameroon
| 15 December 2009
| Azerbaijan
| 28 January 2009
| Congo, Republic of the
| 29 September 2008
| Benin
| 20 September 2006
| Ecuador
| 24 May 2007
| | Bolivia | 23 May 2006
| Finland | 23 September 2003
| | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 24 October 2008
| Gabon | 15 December 2004 | | Brazil | 12 January 2007 | Ghana | 06 November 2006 | Cambodia
| 30 March 2007
| Guinea | 16 September 2005 | Chile
| 12 December 2008
| Iceland | 24 September 2003 | | Costa Rica | 01 December 2005
| Ireland | 02 October 2007 | | Croatia | 25 April 2005
| Italy | 20 August 2003 | Cyprus
| 29 April 2009
| Luxembourg
| 13 January 2005
| | Czech Republic | 10 July 2006
| Madagascar | 24 September 2003 | | Denmark | 25 June 2004
| Netherlands | 03 June 2005 | | Estonia | 18 December 2006
| Norway | 24 September 2003 | Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia
| 13 February 2009
| Portugal | 15 February 2006 | France
| 11 November 2008
| Sierra Leone | 26 September 2003 | | Georgia | 09 August 2005
| South Africa | 20 September 2006 | Germany
| 04 December 2008
| Timor-Leste | 16 September 2005 | Guatemala
| 09 June 2008
| Togo | 15 September 2005 | | Honduras | 23 May 2006
| Turkey | 14 September 2005 | Kazakhstan
| 22 October 2008
| | | Kyrgyzstan
| 29 December 2008
| | | Lebanon
| 22 December 2008
| | | | Liberia | 22 September 2004 | | | | Liechtenstein | 03 November 2006 | | | | Maldives | 15 February 2006
| | | | Mali | 12 May 2005
| | | | Malta | 24 September 2003
| | | | Mauritius | 21 June 2005
| | | | Mexico | 11 April 2005
| | | Montenegro
| 06 March 2009
| | | | New Zealand | 14 March 2007
| | | Nicaragua
| 25 February 2009
| | | Nigeria
| 27 July 2009
| | | | Paraguay | 02 December 2005
| | | | Peru | 14 September 2006 | | | | Poland | 14 September 2005
| | | | Republic of Moldova | 24 July 2006
| | | Romania
| 02 July 2009
| | | | Senegal | 18 October 2006
| | | | Serbia | 26 September 2006 | | | | Slovenia | 23 January 2007 | | | | Spain | 04 April 2006
| | | | Sweden | 14 September 2005
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| Switzerland
| 24 September 2009
| | | | Ukraine | 19 September 2006 | | | | United Kingdom | 10 December 2003 | |
| | Uruguay | 08 December 2005 | |
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*Signatories: Not taken into account are States that have already ratified or acceeded to the OPCAT |
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