Abbreviations
| achpr | African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights |
| AU | African Union |
| car | Central African Republic |
| cescr | Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
| ca 3 | Common Article 3 to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 |
| dprk | Democratic People’s Republic of Korea |
| dph | Direct participation in hostilities |
| ecosoc | Economic and Social Council |
| escr | Economic, social, and cultural rights |
| echr | European Court of Human Rights |
| EU | European Union |
| hrap | Human Rights Advisory Panel |
| iachr | Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
| iacthr | Inter-American Court of Human Rights |
| iac | International armed conflict |
| iccpr | International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 1966 |
| icescr | International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 1966 |
| icc | International Criminal Court |
| icl | International Criminal Law |
| ictr | International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda |
| icty | International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia |
| ihrl | International Human Rights Law |
| ihffc | International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission |
| ihl | International Humanitarian Law |
| ilo | International Labour Organization |
| iiim | International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of those Responsible for the Most Serious Crimes under International Law committed in the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2011 |
| isis | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant |
| ltte | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
| minusca | Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic |
| ntc | National Transitional Council |
| ngo | Non-governmental organisation |
| niac | Non-international armed conflict |
| ohchr | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights |
| crc-op | Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict 2000 |
| osce | Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe |
| oau | Organization of African Unity |
| oas | Organization of American States |
| r2p | Responsibility to Protect |
| rpf | Rwandan Patriotic Front |
| sgbv | Sexual and gender-based violence |
| unchr | United Nations Commission on Human Rights |
| UN | United Nations |
| hrc | United Nations Human Rights Council |
| unmik | United Nations Mission in Kosovo |
| unwcc | United Nations War Crimes Commission |
| udhr | Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| wwi | World War One |
| wwii | World War Two |