AFDD |
Association of Family Members of the Disappeared, Chilean human rights group |
AFEP |
Association of Families of Executed Political Activists, Chilean human rights group |
AU |
African Union |
CPA |
Coalition Provisional Authority, transitional authority in Iraq |
CPA |
Comprehensive Peace Agreement, Sudan |
ETA |
Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, a Basque separatist group |
DINA |
National Intelligence Directorate, Chile’s secret police during the Pinochet years |
HRC |
Human Rights Council |
ICC |
International Criminal Court |
ICJ |
International Court of Justice |
ICTJ |
International Center for Transitional Justice, New York-based NGO |
ICTR |
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda |
ICTY |
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia |
IFOR |
Implementation Force, the NATO peace-enforcement force in Bosnia-Herzegovina |
IGC |
Iraqi Governing Council, interim governing body |
IHT |
Iraqi High Tribunal |
IMF |
International Monetary Fund |
IRA |
Irish Republican Army |
JEM |
Justice and Equality Movement, Sudanese opposition group |
JNA |
Yugoslav National Army |
LRA |
Lord’s Resistance Army, Ugandan rebel group |
NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation |
NCP |
National Congress Party, ruling party in Sudan |
NGOs |
Non-Governmental Organisations |
PP |
Partido Popular, a Spanish right-wing political party |
RECOM |
Regional Commission for Establishing Facts about War Crimes and Other Gross Violations of Human Rights Committed on the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia |
RCLO |
Regime Crimes Liaison Office, US body set up to support prosecution of Ba’athist regime |
SLM/A |
Sudanese Liberation Movement/Army, Sudanese rebel group |
UDHR |
Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
UN |
United Nations |
UNHCR |
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
UNPROFOR |
United Nations Protection Force, a peacekeeping force deployed during the Yugoslav Wars |
UPC |
Union of Congolese Patriots, rebel group in Democratic Republic of Congo |
WTI |
World Tribunal on Iraq |
WCC |
War Crimes Chambers in the District Court of Belgrade |