Nauru
A combined view of Nauru'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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Nauru's General Assembly rhetoric has remained consistently multilateralist (averaging 77 out of 100) across the 13-year period, with the country's speeches centering persistently on climate change, small island state vulnerabilities, and calls for UN institutional reform. While emotional intensity and rhetorical concreteness remained relatively steady, self-accountability scores declined notably from 2008 (58) through 2022 (38), before recovering slightly in 2025 (55)—suggesting a growing emphasis on demands placed on wealthier nations and global bodies rather than Nauru's own domestic commitments. The most pronounced shift came around 2020–2021, when Nauru began more explicitly blending institutional critique with concrete national actions, though the overall trajectory shows a small island state increasingly focused on structural change in the international system rather than unilateral self-commitment.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | High | High | High | Medium |
| 2010 | Medium | High | Medium | High |
| 2011 | Very High | High | High | Medium |
| 2012 | Very High | High | High | Medium |
| 2014 | Very High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2015 | High | High | High | Medium |
| 2018 | High | High | High | Medium |
| 2020 | High | High | High | High |
| 2021 | Very High | High | High | Medium |
| 2022 | High | Medium | High | Low |
| 2023 | High | High | High | Medium |
| 2024 | High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2025 | High | High | High | Medium |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →Nauru has demonstrated strong commitment to environmental and human rights instruments, ratifying 20 of 24 tracked treaties while leaving only two unsigned and two untouched. The country has ratified all major climate agreements (Paris Agreement, Kyoto Protocol, UNFCCC) and most hazardous-substance conventions, reflecting its acute vulnerability to environmental degradation. However, Nauru has notably abstained from action on two environment-related instruments (Minamata Convention on Mercury and Rotterdam Convention) and remains the only signatory without ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, while signing but not ratifying the Arms Trade Treaty—suggesting selective rather than blanket engagement with certain governance frameworks.
Arms control & security
- Arms Trade TreatySigned, not ratified
- 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 TradeNo action
- 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 RightsSigned, not ratified
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 →Nauru's voting pattern shows relatively low participation in the General Assembly, with nearly 46 percent of votes recorded as "not voting" out of 2,300 votes tracked; among those who did vote, the country sided with consensus roughly 70 percent of the time (yes votes). The country's most consistent dissents involve sand and dust storms resolutions (voted no in 2022, 2023, and 2025 despite 98 percent consensus), and historically opposed resolutions on Palestine refugee assistance (2007) and Jerusalem status (2001)—idiosyncratic positions that suggest either principled divergence from small-island bloc solidarity or abstention driven by diplomatic considerations unrelated to environmental or SIDS-specific concerns.
Notable dissents from consensus
Assistance to Palestine refugees : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2007-12-17 · voted N · 99% voted yes
Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2001-12-03 · voted N · 98% voted yes
Combating sand and dust storms : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2023-12-19 · voted N · 98% voted yes
Combating sand and dust storms : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2022-12-14 · voted N · 98% voted yes
Combating sand and dust storms : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2025-12-15 · voted N · 98% voted yes
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.703 (High), ranked #124 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.
2005–2023