Abbreviations and Acronyms

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