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Madagascar
A combined view of Madagascar'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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Madagascar's General Assembly rhetoric has evolved through cycles of multilateralist engagement and defensive pragmatism. From 2006–2008, speeches emphasized international solidarity on development and the MDGs with high multilateralism scores (68–78), but a political crisis in the early 2010s prompted more introspective, sovereignty-focused rhetoric (2012–2013), marked by dips in multilateralism and concrete policy proposals. Since 2015, Madagascar has returned to stronger multilateral framing, with notable peaks in 2020 (COVID-19 solidarity, score 82) and 2024–2025 (climate finance and UN reform), while maintaining increasingly concrete domestic policy reporting and moderate-to-high self-accountability across the period.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2008 | High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2012 | High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2013 | Medium | High | Low | Medium |
| 2015 | High | Medium | High | High |
| 2016 | High | Low | High | Medium |
| 2017 | Medium | Medium | High | High |
| 2020 | Very High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2022 | Medium | High | High | High |
| 2024 | High | Medium | High | High |
| 2025 | High | High | High | High |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →Madagascar demonstrates near-comprehensive commitment to international law, having ratified 23 of 24 tracked treaties. Environmental accords are particularly central to its treaty portfolio, with ratification of all major climate agreements (Paris, Kyoto, UNFCCC) and biodiversity conventions, likely reflecting the country's ecological vulnerability and dependence on natural resources. Human rights and trade governance frameworks are also fully embraced, though Madagascar has signed but not yet ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, suggesting selective caution on nuclear disarmament despite strong general arms-control commitment.
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 WeaponsSigned, not ratified
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 →Madagascar maintains a strong consensus-voting pattern, casting 79.6% yes votes across 5,458 recorded General Assembly votes and abstaining or not voting in roughly 18% of cases. The country's voting dissent is minimal, with only one notable recorded dissent (1973, on UN staff accommodation standards) out of decades of participation, indicating consistent alignment with UN majority positions and general reluctance to break from consensus on high-stakes matters.
Notable dissents from consensus
Standards of accommodation for official travel of United Nations staff : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1973-12-18 · voted N · 98% voted yes
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.487 (Low), ranked #183 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