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UN
- CHR - UN Commission of Human Rights: formulates resolutions/policy guidelines for the world. Yearly session (March-April) in Geneva, Switzerland
- CtteeHR - UN Committee on Human Rights composed of 13 legal experts. Receives complaints against governments; reviews Human Rights reports of governments; can give
general comments
- DPI - Department of Public Information of ECOSOC
- ECOSOC - Economic and Social Council of the UN: with many commissions (like CHR, …)
- ICCPR - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (of the UN)
- ICJ - International Court of Justice (of the UN) (The Hague, Netherlands)
- UDHR - Universal Declaration on Human Rights (of the UN)
- UNOG - United Nations Organization Office in Geneva, Switzerland
- UNONY - United Nations Organization in New York, USA
EU
- CM - Council of Ministers (of the EU)
- Commission - European Commission of the EU
- ECJ - European Court of Justice (of the EU) (Luxembourg)
- EEC - European Economic Community: now part of the EU
- EP - (elected) European Parliament (of the EU: 25 countries) in Brussels and Strasbourg
- EU - European Union (25 European countries): economic and political union
CoE
- CHR-CoE - Court of Human Rights of the CoE (Strasbourg, France)
- CoE - Council of Europe (Strasbourg, France): human rights and parliamentary democracy: some 30 member countries
- ECHR - European Convention on Human Rights (of the CoE) - with additional protocols
- ECHR - European Commission on Human Rights (of the CoE) (Strasbourg, France), which is a filter to the Court of Human rights in Strasbourg
- LAC - Legal Affairs Committee (with a sub-committee on human rights) (of the CoE) (Strasbourg, France)
- PA - Parliamentary Assembly (of national delegates to CoE) (Strasbourg, France)
OTHER
- CO - Conscientious Objector/tion
- COF - Campaña de Objeción Fiscal (Pamplona-Iruñea, Spain)
- COMS - Conscientious Objection to Military Service
- COMT - Conscientious Objection to Military Taxation
- CPTI - Conscience and Peace Tax International (Leuven, Belgium)
- EBCO - European Bureau of Conscientious Objectors (Barcelona/Brussels)
- NCPTF - National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund (USA: Washington, DC)
- NGO - Non-Governmental Organization
- NIPP - Nos impôts pour la paix (Canada)
- NWTRCC - National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (USA)
- NWFS - Netzwerk Friedenssteuer (Rauenberg, Germany)
- OSM-DPN - Campagna Nazionale di Obiezione alle Spese Militari per le Difesa Populare Nonviolenta (Milano, Italy)
- PTC - Peace Tax Campaign
- QCEA - Quaker Council on European Affairs (Brussels, Belgium)
- QUNOG - Quaker Office at UN (Geneva, Switzerland)
- QUNONY - Quaker Office at UN (New York, USA)
- VRAK - AKtie VRedesbelasting (Antwerp, Belgium)
- WTR - War Tax Resistance
