Guidebook Glossary

ACHPR

African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights

ACHR

American Convention on Human Rights

ACRWC

African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child

AfCHPR

African Court on Human and People’s Rights

API

Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts

APII

Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts

ATT

Arms Trade Treaty

AU

African Union

Belém do Pará Convention

Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence against Women

CAT

Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

CCPR

Human Rights Committee

CEDAW

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

CERD

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

CoE

Council of Europe

CPPCG

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

CRC

Convention on the Rights of the Child

CRPD

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

CRSV

Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

CSO

Civil society organisation

ECHR

European Convention on Human Rights

ECtHR

European Court of Human Rights

GCI

Geneva Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field

GCII

Geneva Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea

GCIII

Geneva Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War

GCIV

Geneva Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War

GCs

Geneva Conventions

GREVIO

Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence

IAC

International Armed Conflict

IACHR

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

IACPPT

Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture

IACtHR

Inter-American Court on Human Rights

ICCPR

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

ICERD

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

ICJ

International Court of Justice

ICL

International Criminal Law

ICRC

International Committee of the Red Cross

ICT

Information and communications technology

IHFFC

International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission

IHL

International Humanitarian Law

IHRL

International Human Rights Law

Ill-treatment

Other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

ILO

International Labor Organization

Maputo Protocol

Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa

NGO

Non-profit organisation

NHRI

National human rights institutions

NIAC

Non-international armed conflict

NPM

National preventive mechanism

OAS

Organization of American States

OHCHR

Office of the High Commissionner for Human Rights

OPAC

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict

OPCP

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure

OPSC

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography

PMSC

Private military and security company

POW

Prisoner of war

Robben Island Guidelines

Guidelines and Measures for the Prohibition and Prevention of Torture, Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in Africa

STI

Sexually-transmitted infection

TJRC

Truth, justice and reconciliation commission

UN

United Nations

UNGA

General Assembly of the United Nations

UNHCR

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

UNHRC

United Nations Human Rights Council

UNSC

United Nations Security Council

VCLT

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties

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