CAC

(Human Rights) Council Advisory Committee

CAT

Committee against Torture - Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

CCPR

Human Rights Committee

CEACR

(ILO) Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations

CEART

(ILO/UNESCO) Committee of Experts on the Recommendation concerning Teaching Personnel

CED

Committee on Enforced Disappearances

CEDAW

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women - Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women

CERD

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination - Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

CESCR

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

CFA

(ILO) Committee on Freedom of Association

CHR

Commission on Human Rights

CMW

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

CR

(UNESCO) Committee on Conventions and Recommendations

CRC

Committee on the Rights of the Child - Convention of the Rights of the Child

CRPD

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

CSW

Commission on the Status of Women

DAW

United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women

DPI

Department of Public Information

ECOSOC

United Nations Economic and Social Council

GA

(United Nations) General Assembly

GAOR

General Assembly Official Records

HRC

Human Rights Committee

ICCPR

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

IED

International Convention for the Protections of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances

ICERD

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

ICESCR

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

ICMW

International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

ICPPED

International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance

ILO

International Labour Organization - International Labour Office

NGOs

Non-governmental organizations

NHRIs

National Human Rights Institutions

OHCHR

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

OP

Optional Protocol

OP-CAT

Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture

OP1

Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

OP2-DP

Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aimed at the Abolition of the Death Penalty

OP-AC

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict

OP-SC

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography

SPT

Sub-Committee on Prevention of Torture

UDHR

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

UN

United Nations

UNA

United Nations Association

UNCHR

United Nations Commission on Human Rights

UNHCHR

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

UNHCR

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

UNICEF

United Nations Children's Fund

UPR

Universal Periodic Review

WGC

Working Group on Communications

WGS

Working Group on Situations

WHO

World Health Organization