Listed below are internationally recognized norms and standards which exist to safeguard human rights, the environment, anti-corruption efforts, and international laws regarding arms production and distribution.
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Convention on Cluster Munitions
- Ecuador: Código Civil
- European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
- ILO Convention 169: The rights of Indegenous Peoples
- ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy
- International Court of Justice (ICJ)
- The UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
- OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
- Political Principles Concerning Germany's Conventional Military Equipment Exports
- Right to Food
- The Arms Trade Treaty (Pending Ratification)
- The Equator Principles
- The International Labor Organization (ILO)
- The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
- The UN Millennium Development Goals
- UN Comment Concerning Nuclear Weapons and the Right to Life
- UN Declaration on the Prohibition of the Use of Thermonuclear Weapons
- UN Documents on Depleted Uranium
- UN Declaration on the Right to Development
- UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (Ruggie Guidelines)
- UN Millennium Declaration
- United Nations Global Compact (UNGC)
- UNO Guidelines on Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests