Senegal
A combined view of Senegal'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
Senegal's General Assembly rhetoric has undergone a marked evolution toward institutional advocacy and multilateralism. Early speeches (2008–2011) emphasized Senegal's own concrete national development achievements and self-directed African initiatives, delivered with high emotional intensity and concrete detail. From 2013 onward, however, Senegal shifted toward a distinctly multilateralist posture, with scores on multilateralism rising from 78 to a sustained 82–92 through 2018–2019, while self-accountability declined sharply. Most recently (2022–2025), Senegal has prioritized broad calls for UN and global institutional reform, often speaking on behalf of regional bodies, while substantially reducing concrete national policy commitments—a trend most pronounced in 2022 (self-accountability=18) and 2025 (self-accountability=28), even as rhetorical urgency on global crises (Gaza, Sahel, climate) has intensified.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Medium | High | High | Very High |
| 2009 | High | High | High | High |
| 2011 | Medium | Medium | High | High |
| 2013 | High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2016 | High | High | High | Medium |
| 2017 | Very High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| 2018 | Very High | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| 2019 | Very High | Medium | High | High |
| 2022 | Very High | Medium | High | Very Low |
| 2023 | High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2024 | Very High | High | Medium | Low |
| 2025 | Very High | High | Medium | Low |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →Senegal demonstrates near-universal commitment to international legal frameworks, having ratified 23 of 24 tracked treaties across all major thematic areas. The country shows particularly strong engagement with environmental treaties, ratifying all 9 tracked instruments including the Paris Agreement and conventions addressing climate change, biodiversity, and desertification—priorities aligned with its Sahel geography and development challenges. Senegal has also ratified all human rights and international justice instruments, and maintains robust commitments to arms control and trade governance frameworks. The sole area of non-action is the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, a pattern consistent with many states that rely on nuclear-armed allies for security guarantees.
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 →Senegal maintains a strongly consensus-oriented voting record, with 91.9% affirmative votes across 5,458 General Assembly votes and only 32 dissenting votes (0.6%). Abstentions are proportionally modest (4.3%), reflecting Senegal's general alignment with Assembly majorities. Notable rare dissents cluster in earlier decades and on specific territorial issues: votes against colonial independence implementation (2018), island sovereignty disputes (1979), and nuclear test suspensions (1973) suggest nuanced positions on territorial integrity and security matters, but these represent genuine outliers in an otherwise remarkably aligned record.
Notable dissents from consensus
Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2018-12-07 · voted N · 94% voted yes
Question of the Islands of Gloriesus, Juan de Nova, Europa and Bassas da India : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1979-12-12 · voted N · 93% voted yes
Urgent need for suspension of nuclear and thermonuclear tests : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1973-12-06 · voted N · 90% voted yes
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.530 (Low), ranked #169 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.
1990–2023