| ab | Appellate Body |
| abc | Anticorruption and bribery |
| achpr | African Commission on Human Rights |
| afd | Agence Française de Développement |
| ai | Artificial Intelligence |
| amsa | Australia Modern Slavery Act |
| apis | Application Programming Interfaces |
| arsiwa | Articles of State Responsibility for Internationally Wrongful Acts |
| atca | Alien Tort Claims Act |
| bhp | Broken Hill Proprietary Company |
| bhr | Business and human rights |
| bii | British International Investment |
| build | Better Utilization of Investments Leading to Development |
| cao | Compliance Advisor Ombudsman |
| care | Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility and Ethics |
| cbams | Carbon border adjustment measures |
| cbd | Convention on Biological Diversity |
| cbp | Customs and Border Protection |
| cepi | Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations |
| ch | Cultural heritage |
| chrb | Corporate Human Rights Benchmark |
| cop | Conference of the Parties |
| covax | covid Vaccines Global Access |
| crc | Committee on Children’s Rights |
| cs | Citizen science |
| csddd | Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence |
| csr | Corporate social responsibility |
| csrd | Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive |
| dac | Development Assistance Committee |
| dfc | Development Finance Corporation |
| dfis | Development finance institutions |
| dsa | Digital Services Act |
| dsb | Dispute Settlement Body |
| echr | European Convention on Human Rights |
| edfi | European Development Finance Institutions |
| eias | Environmental Impact Assessments |
| escr | Economic, social and cultural rights |
Environmental, social, and governance |
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| esias | Environmental and Social Impact Assessments |
| EU | European Union |
| eucfr | EU Charter for Fundamental Rights |
| ew | Electronics Watch |
| fair | Fair Recruitment Initiative |
| fair | Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable principle |
| fcdo | Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office |
| fcpa | Foreign Corrupt Practices Act |
| fctc | Framework Convention on Tobacco Control |
| fdi | Foreign Direct Investment |
| ffata | Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act |
| FinCEN | Financial Crimes Enforcement Network |
| fmo | Nederlandse Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden n.v. |
| fpic | Free, prior and informed consent |
| gatt | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
| gcm | Global Coal Management Resources |
| gdpr | General Data Protection Regulation |
| gdps | Gross Domestic Products |
| ghg | Greenhouse gas |
| gida | Global Indigenous Data Alliance Promoting Indigenous Control of Indigenous Data |
| glam | Galleries, Library, Museum and Archives |
| gnp | Gross National Product |
| gpog | General Principles and Operational Guidelines for Fair Recruitment |
| gri | Global Reporting Initiative |
| hrc | Human Rights Council |
| hrdd | Human rights due diligence |
| hrias | Human Rights Impact Assessments |
| hrl | Human rights law |
| iachr | Inter-American Court of Human Rights |
| iams | Independent Accountability Mechanisms |
| iap | International Accountability Project |
| icc | International Criminal Court |
| icescr | International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
| ichr | International Council on Human Rights |
| icm | Independent Complaints Mechanism |
| icts | Information and communication technologies |
| iel | International economic law |
| iep | Independent Expert Panel |
International Finance Corporation |
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| ifis | International financial institutions |
| ihl | International humanitarian law |
| ihrb | Institute for Human Rights and Business |
| ilc | International Law Commission |
| ilo | International Labor Organization |
| imf | International Monetary Fund |
| inc | Intergovernmental negotiating committee |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| ipcc | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| iprs | Intellectual property rights |
| ira | Inflation Reduction Act |
| iuu | Illegal, unreported, and unregulated |
| kcm | Konkola Copper Mines plc |
| ktc | KnowTheChain |
| llc | Limited liability companies |
| marpol | International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships |
| mdbs | Multilateral Development Banks |
| mdgs | Millennium Development Goals |
| MiB | Mapped in Bangladesh |
| mic | Methyl isocyanate |
| ml | Machine Learning |
| mncs | Multinational corporations |
| mne | Multinational Enterprise |
| mnes | Multinational Enterprises |
| msa | Modern Slavery Act |
| nap | National Action Plan |
| nfrd | Non-Financial Reporting Directive |
| ngos | Non-government organisations |
| nsgms | Non-judicial grievance mechanisms |
| oda | Official Development Assistance |
| oecd | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| ogms | Operational-Level Grievance Mechanisms |
| opic | Overseas Private Investment Corporation |
| osh | Open Supply Hub |
| ows | Operation Warp Speed |
| plc | Public Limited Companies |
| pops | Persistent Organic Pollutants |
| ppps | Public-Private Partnerships |
Société de Promotion et de Participation pour la Coopération Economique |
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| ps | Performance Standards |
| pvc | Polyvinyl Chloride |
| rds | Royal Dutch Shell |
| rico | Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisation |
| rmg | Readymade Garment |
| rsc | rmg Sustainability Council |
| sda | Agenda for Sustainable Development |
| sdgs | Sustainable Development Goals |
| serac | Social and Economic Rights Action Center & The Center for Economic and Social Rights |
| soe | State-Owned Enterprises |
| spf | Sustainability Performance Framework |
| sr | Special Rapporteur |
| teu | Treaty of European Union |
| tncs | Transnational Corporations |
| toc | Theory of Change |
| tpp | Tobacco Plain-Packaging |
| tsca | Transparency in Supply Chains Act |
| tj | Transitional justice |
| tjca | Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability |
| ucc | Union Carbide Corporation |
| ucil | Union Carbide India Limited |
| udhr | Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| uflpa | Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act |
| unfccc | UN Framework Convention on Climate Change |
| ungc | United Nations Global Compact |
| ungps | United Nations Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights |
| ui | User Interface |
| UN | United Nations |
| uncac | United Nations Convention against Corruption |
| unclos | UN Convention on the Law of the Sea |
| undp | United Nations Development Programme |
| undrip | UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples |
| unea | UN Environmental Assembly |
| unep | UN Environmental Programme |
| unga | United Nations General Assembly |
| ungps | United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights |
| unicor | Federal Prison Industries, Inc. |
UN Security Council |
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| unwgbhr | UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights |
| usmt | US Military Tribunal in Germany |
| vclt | Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties |
| wg | Working Group |
| who | World Health Organisation |
| wros | Withhold Release Orders |
| wto | World Trade Organization |
| xpcc | Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps |