La partecipazione e la cooperazione delle Maldive nelle organizzazioni internazionali è aumentato considerevolmente negli ultimi due decenni. Di importanza particolare, l'attività in seno alle Nazioni Unite, l'Organizzazione della Conferenza Islamica, sono il Commonwealth e l'Associazione dell'Asia meridionale per la cooperazione regionale (SAARC). Quest'ultimo è particolarmente importante perché la sicurezza a lungo termine e gli interessi economici sono strettamente correlati alle Maldive per lo sviluppo di questa regione. Le Maldive hanno, tuttavia, ha continuato a ratificare la convenzione internazionale o vi hanno aderito a questa:
Iscritto organizzazioni internazionali (engl.):
- Asian Development Bank (ADB)
- Commonwealth
- Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA)
- European Investment Bank (EIB)
- Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
- G-77 (coalition of developing countries)
- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD; World Bank Group)
- International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO)
- International Development Association (IDA; World Bank Group)
- International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
- International Finance Corporation (IFC; World Bank Group)
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- International Maritime Organisation (IMO)
- Interpol
- International Olympic Committee (IOC)
- International Telecoms Union (ITU)
- Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
- Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC)
- Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
- South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
- South Asia Cooperative Environment Programme (SACEP)
- United Nations (UN)
- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)
- United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO)
- Universal Postal Union (UPU)
- World Customs Organisation (WCO)
- World Health Organisation (WHO)
- World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
- World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)
- World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO)
- World Trade Organisation (WTO)
Firma di importanti convenzioni internazionali (engl.):
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
19 September 2006
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (OPICCPR)
19 September 2006
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
19 September 2006
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Accession 24 April 1984
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Accession 1 July 1993
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Ratification 13 March 2006
Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Accession 20 April 2004
Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Accession 22 June 2006 (founding member)
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Ratified 11 February 1991
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
Ratified 29 December 2004
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
Ratified 10 May 2002
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Accession 24 April 1984
Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Ratified 7 April 1970
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)
Accession 7 September 2000
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and their Destruction (Biological Weapons Convention)
Ratified 1 July 1993
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling and use of Chemical Weapons and their Destruction (Chemical Weapons Convention)
Ratified 31 May 1994
Conventions on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction
Ratified 7 September 2000
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid
Accession 24 April 1984
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer
Accession 26 April 1988
Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
Ratified 16 May 1989
Basel Convention on the Control of Trans-boundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
Accession 28 April 1992
Convention on Biological Diversity
Ratified 9 November 1992
Cartegna Protocol on Biosafety
Accession 3 September 2002
Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Ratified 30 December 1998
UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (1961)
Accession 7 September 2000
UN Convention on Psychotropic Substances (1971)
Accession 7 September 2000
UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (1988)
Ratified 7 September 2000