Liberia
A combined view of Liberia'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.
Compare with another country →Speech history
Liberia's UN General Assembly speeches have consistently emphasized multilateralism and post-conflict recovery, with notable evolution in tone and focus. The early years (2006–2017) featured gratitude-laden rhetoric centered on international support for peacebuilding and institutional reform, marked by high multilateralism scores (78–82) but lower self-accountability. A pivotal shift occurred in 2014 with an emotionally intense address on the Ebola crisis that combined vivid specificity with urgent appeals for coordinated international response. In recent years (2019–2025), speeches have grown increasingly domestically focused, highlighting Liberia's own governance achievements and reform efforts while maintaining moderate-to-strong multilateral commitment; the most recent address (2025) notably returned to emphatic multilateralism (90) paired with calls for global institutional reform.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | High | Medium | Medium | Low |
| 2011 | High | Low | Medium | High |
| 2013 | High | Medium | High | High |
| 2014 | High | Very High | High | High |
| 2015 | Very High | Medium | Medium | Low |
| 2017 | High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2019 | Medium | Medium | Medium | High |
| 2020 | High | Low | Medium | Medium |
| 2022 | High | Low | High | High |
| 2023 | High | Low | Medium | Low |
| 2024 | High | Low | Medium | Medium |
| 2025 | Very High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →Liberia demonstrates broad and nearly comprehensive commitment to international legal frameworks, having ratified 23 of 24 tracked treaties across all major thematic areas. The country is particularly engaged in environmental governance, having ratified all nine environmental treaties tracked, from foundational frameworks like the UNFCCC and Paris Agreement to specialized protocols addressing mercury, persistent organic pollutants, and desertification. Liberia has also ratified all five human rights instruments and both arms control treaties, alongside the Rome Statute and key anti-corruption and maritime law conventions. Its sole non-ratification is the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, suggesting a measured approach to the newest generation of disarmament instruments rather than principled opposition to arms control.
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 WeaponsNo action
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 MercuryRatified
- 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 →Liberia maintains a strongly pro-consensus voting pattern, with yes votes on 67% of General Assembly resolutions and abstentions on only 7%, reflecting reliable participation and alignment with majority positions. Its five notable dissents—all no votes on resolutions achieving 97–98% support—cluster around decolonization and Middle Eastern territorial disputes (Israeli settlements, Syrian Golan, non-self-governing territories), suggesting a selective but principled divergence rooted in particular geopolitical positions rather than systematic opposition to consensus. This pattern indicates Liberia operates as a consistent multilateral actor with narrow but identifiable areas of independent judgment.
Notable dissents from consensus
Economic and other activities which affect the interests of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2020-12-10 · voted N · 98% voted yes
Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1975-12-15 · voted N · 98% voted yes
The occupied Syrian Golan : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2020-12-10 · voted N · 98% voted yes
Dissemination of information on decolonization : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2021-12-09 · voted N · 98% voted yes
Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2021-12-09 · voted N · 97% voted yes
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.510 (Low), ranked #177 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.
1999–2023