| 2slgbtqqia | two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual |
| aat | Administrative Appeals Tribunal (Australia) |
| acf | Active Citizens Fund (Estonia) |
| achr | American Convention on Human Rights |
| African Charter | African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights |
| African Children’s Charter | African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child |
| African Commission | African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights |
| African Court | African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights |
| African Women’s Protocol | Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa |
| agd | Attorney-General’s Department (Australia) |
| ahrc | Australian Human Rights Commission (Australia) |
| ahrc | Arab Human Rights Charter |
| ai | Amnesty International |
| ajs | Senegalese Female Lawyers’ Association |
| alp | Australian Labour Party |
| alrc | Australian Law Reform Commission |
| ansd | National Statistics and Demography Agency (Senegal) |
| asean | Association of Southeast Asian Nations |
| baojs | Reception and Referral Offices (Senegal) |
| bijs | Citizen Advice Bureaux (Senegal) |
| boe | Boletín Oficial del Estado (Spain) |
| cape | Child Protection Support Unit (Senegal) |
| cat | Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment |
| cc | Constitutional Court (Spain; Czech Republic) |
| CChR | Commissioner for Children’s Rights (Poland) |
| ccl | Centre for Child Law (South Africa) |
| ccndhdih | National Advisory Council on Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (Senegal) |
| ccohr | Secretariat for the Continuing Committee of Officials on Human Rights (Canada) |
| ccpr | International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |
| ccrc | Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children |
| ced | International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance |
| ced Cttee | Committee on Enforced Disappearance |
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women |
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| CEDAW Cttee | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women |
| cedcas | State Councils for the Rights of the Child (Brazil) |
| cena | Independent National Electoral Commission (Senegal) |
| cerd Cttee | Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination |
| cerd | International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination |
| cermi | Spanish Committee of Representatives of Persons with Disabilities |
| cescr | International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
| CESCR Cttee | Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
| cese | Economic, Social and Environmental Council (Senegal) |
| cge | Commission for Gender Equality (South Africa) |
| chin | Children in Need Network |
| chr | Council for Human Rights |
| chrc | Canadian Human Rights Commission |
| chrm | Commission on Human Rights and Minorities (Brazil) |
| chrt | Canadian Human Rights Tribunal |
| cide | Interschool Centre for Children’s Rights |
| ciedp | Commission of Enforced Disappeared Person (Nepal) |
| cinpe | National Intersectoral Committee for the Protection of Children (Senegal) |
| cinpe | National Intersectoral Child Protection Committee (Senegal) |
| cjeu | Court of Justice of the European Union |
| cmdcas | Municipal Councils for the Rights of the Child (Brazil) |
| cmu | Universal Health Coverage Programme (Senegal) |
| cmw | International Convention on the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families |
| cndh | National Human Rights Commission (Mexico) |
| cnlcte | National Intersectoral Committee against Child Labour (Senegal) |
| cnltp | National Human Trafficking Unit (Senegal) |
| cnra | National Broadcasting Regulatory Council (Senegal) |
| cnv | National Truth Commission (Brazil) |
| CoE | Council of Europe |
| conapred | National Council for the Prevention of Discrimination (Mexico) |
| cos | Concluding Observations |
| cpt | European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Other Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment |
| crc | Convention on the Rights of the Child |
| crc Cttee | Committee on the Rights of the Child |
Court for the Suppression of Unlawful Enrichment (Senegal) |
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| cria | Child Rights Impact Assessment (Canada) |
| crpd | Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities |
| csdh | Senegalese Human Rights Committee |
| csfr | Czech and Slovak Federative Republic |
| csm | Higher Council of the Judiciary (Senegal) |
| csos | civil society organisations |
| danida | Danish International Development Assistance |
| dci Spain | Defence of Children International |
| dfat | Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australia) |
| dfid | Department for International Development |
| dip | Special Police and the Image and Advertising Department (Brazil) |
| dpj | Democratic Party of Japan |
| dpo | Organisation of Persons with Disabilities (Finland) |
| dprk | Democratic People’s Republic of Korea |
| dpsp | Directive Principles of State Policy |
| eçha | Network for the Rights of Children with Disabilities (Turkey) |
| echr | European Convention of Human Rights |
| ecosocc | Economic, Social and Cultural Council (African Union) |
| ecowas | Economic Community of West African States |
| ecpt | European Convention on the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment |
| ecri | European Commission against Racism and Intolerance |
| ECtHR | European Court of Human Rights |
| edja | African Legal Publishers |
| ehro | Egyptian Human Rights Organisation |
| eidhr | European Instrument for the Development of Human Rights |
| eihr | Estonian Institute of Human Rights |
| eous | Equal Opportunity Units (Egypt) |
| ESCR | economic, social and cultural rights |
| espen | National School of Criminal Services (Brazil) |
| EU | European Union |
| ewua | early warning urgency actions |
| fafia/afai | Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action Canada |
| fao | Food and Agriculture Organisation |
| fc | Brazilian Federal Constitution |
| fca | Federal Court of Appeal (Canada) |
| fcc | Federal Court of Canada |
| fgm | female genital mutilation |
| fgts | Employee’s Severance Guarantee (Brazil) |
Financial Intelligence Centre (Zambia) |
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| fmhr | Forum of Ministers on Human Rights (Canada) |
| fnhri | Finnish National Human Rights Institution |
| F-P-T | Federal-Provincial-Territorial (Canada) |
| funai | National Indian Foundation (Brazil) |
| ganhri | Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions |
| gchr | Government Commissioner for Human Rights (Czech Republic) |
| geed | Gender Equity and Equality Directorate (Senegal) |
| gesi | gender equality and social inclusion (Nepal) |
| giz | Germany Development Cooperation |
| gni | gross national income |
| gongos | government organised non-governmental organisations |
| greco | Group of States against Corruption |
| gsia | Sociology Group of Childhood and Adolescence (Spain) |
| hac | Highest Administrative Court (Czech) |
| hca | High Court of Australia |
| hccl | Higher Local Authorities Council (Senegal) |
| hiv/aids | human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome |
| hrc | Human Rights Council |
| hrca | Human Rights Council of Australia |
| HRCttee | UN Human Rights Committee |
| hrd | Human Rights Department (Czech) |
| hrhad | Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Division (Japan) |
| hrlc | Human Rights Law Centre (Australia) |
| hrlrc | Human Rights Law Resources Centre (Australia) |
| hrw | Human Rights Watch |
| IACtHR | Inter-American Court of Human Rights |
| iachr | Inter-American Commission of Human Rights |
| icc | International Criminal Court |
| ictr | International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda |
| idc | Interdepartmental Committee on International Treaty Obligations (South Africa) |
| idhp | Human Rights and Peace Institute (Senegal) |
| ihrl | international human rights law |
| ihrla | International Human Rights Law Association |
| ilo | International Labour Organisation |
| imchr | Inter-Ministerial Committee on Human Rights (Jamaica) |
| imf | International Monetary Fund |
| imm | Independent Monitoring Mechanism (South Africa) |
| inai | National Institute on Access to Information (Mexico) |
Independent Commission of Investigations (Jamaica) |
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| inegi | National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Mexico) |
| inesc | Institute of Socio-Economic Studies (Brazil) |
| inslm | Independent National Security Legislation Monitor (Australia) |
| iom | International Organisation for Migration |
| ipea | Institute of Applied Economic Research (Brazil) |
| ippdh | Institute of Public Policies on Human Rights (Brazil) |
| irb | Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Istanbul Convention | Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence |
| jcpc | Judicial Committee of the Privy Council |
| jctr | Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection |
| jdf | Japan Disability Forum |
| jfba | Japan Federation of Bar Associations |
| jics | Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services (South Africa) |
| jsc | Judicial Service Commission (South Africa) |
| juricaf | Jurisprudence of Francophone Supreme Courts |
| lci | Law Commission of India |
| ldp | Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) |
| leaf | West Coast Legal Education and Action Fund (Canada) |
| lgbt | lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender |
| lhr | Lawyers for Human Rights (South Africa) |
| lichr | Legal Information Centre for Human Rights (Estonia) |
| loipr | List of Issues Prior to Reporting |
| mdgs | Millennium Development Goals |
| mercosur | Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Surinam |
| mfdc | Mouvement des Forces Démocratiques de Casamance (Senegal) |
| misa | Media Institute of Southern Africa Zambia Chapter (Zambia) |
| mmd | Movement for Multiparty Democracy (Zambia) |
| mmiwg | murdered missing indigenous women and girls (Canada) |
| mnpct | National Mechanism for the Prevention and Combat of Torture (Brazil) |
| mofa | Ministry of Foreign Affairs Japan |
| mps | Members of Parliament |
| nato | North Atlantic Treaty Organisation |
| nc | National Congress (Brazil) |
| ncc | National Children’s Commissioner (Australia) |
| nccm | National Council for Childhood and Motherhood (Egypt) |
National Coordinating Committee for Preventing and Combating Illegal Migration and Human Trafficking (Egypt) |
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| nchr | National Council of Human Rights (Egypt; Brazil) |
| ncpcr | National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (India) |
| ncrb | National Crime Records Bureau (India) |
| ncrc | National Children’s Rights Committee (South Africa) |
| ncw | National Council for Women (Egypt) |
| ndis | National Disability Insurance Scheme (Australia) |
| nds | National Disability Strategy (Australia) |
| ned | National Endowment for Democracy (Zambia) |
| neges | National Gender Equity and Equality Strategy (Senegal) |
| nepad | New Partnership for Africa’s Development |
| nfdn | National Federation of Disabled Population, Nepal |
| ngocc | Non-Governmental Gender Coordinating Council |
| ngo | non-governmental organisation |
| nhrap | National Human Rights Action Plan (Nepal) |
| nhrc | National Human Rights Commission (India) |
| nhri | national human rights institution |
| nhri | Defensor del Pueblo (Spain) |
| nhri | Human Rights and Equality Institution (Turkey) |
| nja | National Judicial Academy (Nepal) |
| mmiwg | missing and murdered indigenous women and girls (Canada) |
| nmrf | National Mechanism for Reporting and Follow-Up (South Africa) |
| npac | National Programme of Action for Children (South Africa) |
| npm | National Preventive Mechanism (under op-cat) |
| npm | National Preventive Mechanism (Finland) |
| nrc | National Register for Citizens (India) |
| nscj | National Supreme Court of Justice (Mexico) |
| nsnp | National Schools Nutrition Programme (South Africa) |
| nwac | Native Women’s Association of Canada |
| nwac | National Women’s Association of Canada |
| oas | Organisation of American States |
| oau | Organisation of African Unity |
| oca | Office of the Children’s Advocate (Jamaica) |
| ocasi | Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants |
| odihr | Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights |
| oecd | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| ohada | Organisation for the Harmonisation of Business Law (Senegal) |
| ohchr | UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights |
| oics | Office of the Inspector of Custodial Services (Australia) |
World Organisation Against Torture |
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| omhr | Office of the Minister of Human Rights (Czech Republic) |
| onlpl | National Detention Centre Observatory (Senegal) |
| OP1-CCPR | (first) Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |
| op2-ccpr | Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aimed at the abolition of the death penalty |
| op-cat | Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment |
| op-cedaw | Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| op-cescr | Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
| OP-CRPD | Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities |
| op-crc-ac | Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict |
| op-crc-cp | Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure |
| op-crc-sc | Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography |
| opd | Office of the Public Defender |
| opdr | Office of the Public Defender of Rights (Czech Republic) |
| ops | Optional Protocols |
| osce | Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe |
| otit | Organisation for Technical Intern Training (Japan) |
| pd | Public Defender (Czech) |
| pf | Patriotic Front (Zambia) |
| pjchr | Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights (Australia) |
| pkk | Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Turkey) |
| pmtct | prevention of mother-to-child transmission (of hiv) |
| pnds | National Health Development Plan (Senegal) |
| pri | Institutionalised Revolutionary Party (Mexico) |
| pschr | Permanent Supreme Committee of Human Rights (Egypt) |
| pse | Emerging Senegal Plan |
| pssd | Strategic Plan for Digital Health (Senegal) |
| rc | Royal Commissions (Australia) |
| rdc | Race Discrimination Commissioner (Australia) |
| rdp | Reconstruction and Development Programme (South Africa) |
Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication Related Information Act (South Africa) |
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| saarc | South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation |
| sac | Supreme Administrative Court (Czech Republic) |
| sac | Supreme Administrative Court (Finland) |
| saccord | Southern African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes |
| sahrc | South African Human Rights Commission |
| salrc | South African Law Reform Commission |
| sandf | South African National Defence Force |
| sc | Supreme Court (Finland) |
| scc | Supreme Constitutional Court (Egypt) |
| scc | Supreme Court of Canada |
| sccr | Supreme Court of the Czech Republic |
| sce | Supreme Court of Estonia |
| sci | Supreme Court of India |
| SciELO | Scientific Electronic Library Online |
| scn | Supreme Court of Nepal |
| sda | Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth) (Australia) |
| sdg | Sustainable Development Goals |
| sds | Statistics Master Plan (Senegal) |
| sedh | Special Secretariat for Human Rights (Brazil) |
| seppir | Special Secretariat for Policies for the Promotion of Racial Equality (Brazil) |
| sipia | System on Information about Childhood (Brazil) |
| sndes | National Economic and Social Development Strategy (Senegal) |
| sneeg | National Strategy for Gender Equity and Equality (Senegal) |
| snhis | National Housing of Social Interest System (Brazil) |
| snpe | National Child Protection Strategy (Senegal) |
| snps | National Social Protection Strategy (Senegal) |
| sochr | Senior Officials Committee on Human Rights (Canada) |
| sogi | sexual orientation and gender identity |
| şönİm | Centres for Preventing and Monitoring Violence |
| spm | Special Secretariat of Policies for Women (Brazil) |
| spsp | National Human Rights Commission Strategic Plan Support Project (Nepal) |
| spt | Sub-Committee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment |
| ssdp | School Sector Development Plan (Nepal) |
| sshrcc | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada |
| ssrp | School Sector Reform Programme (Nepal) |
Federal Supreme Court (Brazil) |
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| stj | Superior Court of Justice (Brazil) |
| tb | treaty body |
| tbs | treaty body system |
| tohad | Social Rights and Research Society (Turkey) |
| trc | Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Nepal) |
| trc | Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Canada) |
| udhr | Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| ums | Judges’ Union of Senegal |
| UN | United Nations |
| undp | United Nations Development Programme |
| undrip | UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples |
| unesco | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation |
| unfpa | United Nations Population Fund |
| unhchr | United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights |
| unhcr | United Nations High Commission for Refugees |
| unicef | United Nations Children’s Fund |
| unmin | United Nations Mission in Nepal |
| unodc | United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime |
| unsc | United Nations Security Council |
| unsdgs | United Nations Sustainable Development Goals |
| unsp | United Nations Special Procedures |
| untbs | United Nations treaty bodies |
| upnd | United Party for National Development (Zambia) |
| upr | Universal Periodic Review |
| vane | Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Finland) |
| wacsi | West African Civil Society Institute |
| wefe | Women Empowerment and Gender Equality Bill (South Africa) |
| wgad | Working Group on Arbitrary Detention |
| WiLDAF | Women in Law and Development in Africa |
| wto | World Trade Organisation |
| zldc | Zambia Law Development Commission |