| afrc | Armed Forces Revolutionary Council |
| africom | United States Africa Command |
| ahc | Ad Hoc Committee |
| apic | Agreement on Privileges and Immunities |
| arsa | Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army |
| asp | Assembly of the States Parties |
| aspa | American Servicemembers Protection Act |
| bric | Brazil, Russia, India, and China |
| cah | Crimes against Humanity |
| cat | Convention against Torture |
| cbi | Central Bureau of Investigations |
| cedaw | Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women |
| cidt | Torture and Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment |
| crc | Convention on the Rights of the Child |
| ctbt | Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty |
| ctc | Counter-terrorism Committee |
| eccc | Extraordinary Chambers of the Cambodian Court |
| echr | European Convention on Human Rights |
| ECtHR | European Court of Human Rights |
| ecowas | Economic Community of West African States |
| eln | National Liberation Army |
| etp | East Timor Panels |
| farc | Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces |
| gaatw | Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women |
| gdp | Gross Domestic Product |
| hr | Human Rights |
| hrc | Human Rights Committee |
| hrc | Human Rights Council |
| hrw | Human Rights Watch |
| icc | International Criminal Court |
| iccpr | International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |
| icj | International Court of Justice |
| icl | International Criminal Law |
| icrc | International Committee of the Red Cross |
| ict | International Crimes Tribunal |
| icta | International Crimes (Tribunals) Act |
| ictr | International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda |
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia |
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| ihl | International Humanitarian Law |
| ihrl | International Human Rights Law |
| ilc | International Law Commission |
| ilo | International Labour Organisation |
| imt | International Military Tribunal |
| ipc | Indian Penal Code |
| ipco | Investigatory Powers Commissioner |
| ipt | Investigatory Powers Tribunal |
| isil | Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant |
| isis | Islamic State of Iraq and Syria |
| itlos | International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea |
| jce | Joint Criminal Enterprise |
| mdgs | Millennium Development Goals |
| oas | Organisation of American States |
| opac | Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict |
| otp | Office of the Prosecutor |
| ptc | Pre-Trial Chamber |
| rab | Rapid Action Battalion |
| rascom | Regional African Satellite Communication Organisation |
| r2p | Responsibility to Protect |
| rss | Rastriya Swayam Sevak |
| ruf | Revolutionary United Front |
| saarc | South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation |
| scsl | Special Court for Sierra Leone |
| sdgs | Sustainable Development Goals |
| sit | Special Investigation Team |
| sjp | Special Jurisdiction for Peace |
| srk | Sarajevo Romanija Corps |
| tcl | Transnational Criminal Law |
| udhr | Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| UN | United Nations |
| uncat | UN Convention against Torture |
| unga | UN General Assembly |
| unsc | United Nations Security Council |
| upr | Universal Periodic Review |
| ustr | United States Trade Representative |
| vclt | Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties |
| vhp | Vishwa Hindu Parishad |
| wto | World Trade Organization |