The Czech Republic emphasizes in its foreign policy strategies the prominent place of the promotion of human rights. In order to be taken seriously, a state using normative argumentation should be credible – i.e. it should practice what it “preaches”. The article reduces the term “human rights credibility of a country” to its domestic performance (how it observes human rights at home), which is well covered by various reports of both governmental and non-governmental organizations, and its willingness to take on international human rights obligations. We quantitatively map how the Czech Republic signs and ratifies international treaties with a relevance to human rights and seek to determine, through comparison with other EU and Visegrad countries, if its self-presentation as a human rights observing and promoting country is credible.