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Abbreviations Related to Human Rights

Abbreviations

ACHR – American Convention on Human Rights

AHRD – ASEAN Human Rights Declaration

AICHR – ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights

CAT – Committee against Torture

CED – Committee on Enforced Disappearances

CEDAW – Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

CERD – International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

CERD – Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

CMW – Committee on Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

COHRE – Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions

CRC – Convention on Rights of the Child / Committee on the Rights of Children 

CRPD – Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities / Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

ECHR – European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedom

ECRI – European Commission against Racism and Intolerance

ECHR – European Court of Human Rights

HRC – Human Rights Council

IACHR – Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

ICC – International Criminal Court

ICCPR – International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

ICERD – International Covenant on the elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

ICESCR – International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

ICJ – International Court of Justice

ILO – International Labour Organisation

MDGs – Millennium Development Goals

NGO – Non-government Organisation

NHRIs – National Human Rights Institutions

OHCHR – Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

UDHR – Universal Declaration of Human Rights

UNDP – United Nations Development Programme

UN-Habitat – United Nations Human Settlements Programme

UNICEF – United Nations Children’s Fund

WTO – World Trade Organization

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