List of Abbreviations
| AA |
Appropriate Authority |
| AAAQ |
Availability, Accessibility, Acceptability and Quality |
| AC |
Authorization Committee |
| AMA |
American Medical Association |
| ANZDATA |
Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry |
| ASEAN |
Association of Southeast Asian Nations |
| ATPA |
Anti-Trafficking of Persons Act of the Philippines |
| AU |
African Union |
| BHFS |
Bureau of Health Facilities and Services |
| BMA |
British Medical Association |
| CA |
Court of Appeal |
| CAT |
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment |
| CEDAW |
Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women |
| CESCR |
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
| CIL |
Customary International Law |
| COE |
Council of Europe |
| CRC |
Convention on the Rights of the Child |
| CSN |
Canadian Society of Nephrology |
| CST |
Canadian Society of Transplantation |
| CST |
Child Sex Tourism |
| DAFOH |
Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting |
| ECPAT |
End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes |
| ESRD |
End-Stage Renal Disease |
| GA |
General Assembly |
| HIV |
Human Immunodeficiency Virus |
| HRC |
Human Rights Committee |
| HTA |
Human Tissue Act of Victoria |
| HTGA |
Human Tissue Gift Act |
| HTODA |
Human Tissue and Organ Donation Act of Alberta |
| ICCPR |
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |
| ICESCR |
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
| ICJ |
International Court of Justice |
| ICTY |
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia |
| ISN |
International Society of Nephrology |
| LNRDs |
Living Non-Related Donors |
| LRDs |
Living Related Donors |
| MESOT |
Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation |
| MLATs |
Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties |
| MOU |
Memoranda of Understanding |
| MPC |
Model Penal Code |
| NCB |
Nuffield Council on Bioethics |
| NCTOTD |
National Clinical Taskforce on Organ and Tissue Donation |
| NGO |
Non-Governmental Organization |
| OAS |
Organization of American States |
| ODA |
Organ Donation Act of the Philippines |
| OP1-ICCPR |
First Optional Protocol to the ICCPR |
| OP2-CRC |
Second Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography |
| OP3-CRC |
Third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of a Child on a Communications Procedure |
| OP-ICESCR |
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
| OPCAT |
Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment |
| OPDT |
Organ Procurement and Donation Taskforce |
| OTST |
Organ Trafficking and Sale Taskforce |
| OTDTAA |
Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority Act of Australia |
| PCIJ |
Permanent Court of International Justice |
| PRDR |
Philippines Renal Disease Registry |
| REDCOP |
Philippine Renal Disease Control Program |
| SC |
Special Constables |
| TANs |
Transnational Advocacy Networks |
| TGLNA |
Trillium Gift of Life Network of Ontario |
| THOA |
Transplantation of Human Organs Act of India |
| THOAA |
Transplantation of Human Organs (Amendment) Act of India |
| THOAR |
Transplantation of Human Organs (Amendment) Rules of India |
| THOR |
Transplantation of Human Organs Rules of India |
| THOTR |
Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Rules of India |
| TTA |
Transplantation and Anatomy Act of Australia |
| TTS |
The Transplantation Society |
| UAGA |
Uniform Anatomical Gift Act |
| UDHR |
Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| ULCC |
Uniform Law Conference of Canada |
| UN |
United Nations |
| UNICEF |
United Nations Children’s Fund |
| UPR |
Universal Periodic Review |
| WHA |
World Health Assembly |
| WHO |
World Health Organization |
| WMA |
World Medical Association |