AFRC Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (Sierra Leone)

AMDH Association Mauritanienne des Droits de l'Homme (Mauritania)

ANC African National Congress (South Africa)

CBDH Commission Béninoise des Droits de l'Homme (Benin)

CCDH Conseil Consultatif des Droits de l'Homme (Morocco)

CEAWC Committee for the Eradication of Abduction of Women and Children (Sudan)

CENA National Autonomous Electoral Commission (Benin)

CHRAJ Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (Ghana)

CNDH Commission Nationale des Droits de l'Homme (Chad)

CNDH Commission Nationale des Droits de l'Homme (Togo)

CPDM Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (Cameroon)

CSDH Comité Senegalais des Droits de l'Homme (Senegal)

DMI Department of Military Intelligence (Rwanda)

ECOMOG ECOWAS Cease-Fire Monitoring Group (Sierra Leone)

ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States

E.U. European Union

FHRI Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (Uganda)

FIDH Fédération Internationale des Ligues des Droits de l'Homme

GERDDES Groupe d'Etudes et de Recherche sur la Démcratie et le Développement Economique et Social en Afrique (Benin)

ICD Independent Complaints Directorate (South Africa)

ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross

IDHPD Institut des Droits de l'Homme et de Promotion de la Démocratie (Benin)

LTDH Ligue Tchadienne des Droits de l'Homme (Chad)

LTDH Ligue Togolais des Droits de l'Homme (Togo)

MMD Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (Zambia)

NCD National Commission for Democracy (Sierra Leone)

NCDHR National Commission for Democracy and Human Rights (Sierra Leone)

NCHRF National Commission on Human Rights and Freedoms (Cameroon)

NCRA National Consortium on Refugee Affairs (South Africa)

NCT National Compensation Tribunal (Malawi)

NGO Nongovernmental organization

NPRC National Provisional Ruling Council (Sierra Leone)

OAU Organization of African Unity

ONDH Observatoire National des Droits de l'Homme (Algeria)

PRAWA Prisoners Rehabilitation and Welfare Action (Nigeria)

RADDHO Rencontre Africaine pour la Defense des Droits de l'Homme (Senegal)

RPT Rassemblement du Peuple Togolais (Togo)

RUF Revolutionary United Front (Sierra Leone)

SAHRC South African Human Rights Commission

TRC Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa)

UHRC Uganda Human Rights Commission

U.K. United Kingdom

U.N. United Nations

UNAMSIL United Nations Mission to Sierra Leone

UNDP United Nations Development Program

UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund

UNIP United National Independence Party (Zambia)

UPDF Ugandan Peoples' Defense Force