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ABBREVIATIONS ACHR – Inter-America Convention on Human Rights ACHPR – African Charter on Human and People’s Rights

ACPPT – Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture API – Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts of 1977 ARSIWA – Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts BITs – Bilateral investment treaties CAT – Committee Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment CDDH-UE – group of experts set up within the Council of Europe (to Draft Agreement on the Accession of the EU to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) CFI – Court of First Instance of the EU CFSP – Common Foreign and Security Policy (EC) CGPCS – Contact Goup on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia CLRAE – Conference of Local and Regional Authorities in Europe CMS – Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals CNCDH – Commission nationale consultative des droits de l’Homme CRC – Convention on the Rights of the Child CRW – Convention for the Regulation of Whaling EC – European Commision ECJ – European Court of Justice ECHR – European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

ECtHR – European Court of Human Rights ECOFIN – Economic and Financial Committee ECSC – European Coal and Steel Community EEC – European Economic Community EU – European union EU/EC – European union/ European Commision

FARDC – Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo HPCR - Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research HRC – Human Rights Council IAC – international armed conflict ICISS – International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty

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