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Cabo Verde
A combined view of Cabo Verde's UN General Assembly speeches, treaty commitments, and voting record.
The narrative paragraphs below are AI-generated syntheses of the data shown — the tables and figures themselves come directly from the underlying records, not from the AI.
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Cabo Verde's UN General Assembly rhetoric has remained consistently multilateralist over thirteen years, with multilateralism scores clustering between 78 and 92—reflecting the country's steadfast advocacy for UN-led global cooperation and institutional reform. A notable shift occurred in 2019, when the country pivoted toward greater specificity and self-accountability, highlighting its own development achievements and national targets with elevated concreteness (78) and self-accountability (82), though this emphasis on national narrative moderated somewhat in subsequent years. From 2019 onward, the country has increasingly balanced calls for global cooperation with concrete commitments to its own policy priorities, particularly around climate change, ocean governance, and the needs of small island developing states.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | High | Medium | Medium | High |
| 2008 | Very High | Medium | Low | Very Low |
| 2010 | Very High | High | Medium | High |
| 2012 | High | Medium | Medium | Low |
| 2013 | High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| 2016 | Very High | Low | Low | Low |
| 2017 | High | Medium | Low | Low |
| 2019 | Medium | Medium | High | Very High |
| 2021 | Very High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| 2022 | Very High | Low | Medium | Medium |
| 2023 | High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2024 | High | Medium | High | High |
| 2025 | Very High | High | High | Medium |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →Cabo Verde demonstrates nearly comprehensive treaty engagement, having ratified 23 of 24 tracked agreements across all five thematic categories. The country shows particularly strong commitment to environmental treaties—ratifying all eight tracked instruments, including the Paris Agreement and Kyoto Protocol—and human rights instruments, with all five major conventions ratified. Its only point of non-action is the Minamata Convention on Mercury, reflecting otherwise universal participation in arms control, international justice, and trade governance frameworks.
Arms control & security
- Arms Trade TreatyRatified
- Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban TreatyRatified
- Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their DestructionRatified
- Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear WeaponsRatified
Environment & climate
- Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their DisposalRatified
- Convention on Biological DiversityRatified
- Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
- Minamata Convention on MercuryNo action
- Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Paris AgreementRatified
- Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International TradeRatified
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic PollutantsRatified
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in AfricaRatified
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
Human rights
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or PunishmentRatified
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against WomenRatified
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesRatified
- Convention on the Rights of the ChildRatified
- International Covenant on Civil and Political RightsRatified
International justice
- Rome Statute of the International Criminal CourtRatified
Trade & governance
- United Nations Convention against CorruptionRatified
- United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeRatified
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the SeaRatified
Voting record
Full voting record →Cabo Verde's voting record demonstrates overwhelming alignment with General Assembly consensus, voting affirmatively on 84% of all votes (4,111 yes votes out of 4,892) with virtually no notable dissents. The country recorded only 7 dissenting votes and 152 abstentions across the period, with 622 instances of non-voting, indicating consistent cooperation and an absence of polarizing opposition to international measures.
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.668 (Medium), ranked #135 globally in 2023.
Combines life expectancy, education, and income into one comparable score, 0 to 1. Source: UNDP Human Development Report 2025 — deterministic figures, not AI-generated.
2000–2023