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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2026

Edited by
Deborah Casalin ,
Marie-Bénédicte Dembour  and
Cornelia Klocker
Deborah Casalin
Affiliation:
University of Antwerp
Marie-Bénédicte Dembour
Affiliation:
Ghent University
Cornelia Klocker
Affiliation:
Ghent University

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Questions of Evidence in the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies' Individual Communications Procedure , pp. xxix - xxx
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2026
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Abbreviations

ACHPR

African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights

ACmHPR

African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

BiH

Bosnia and Herzegovina

BRD

Beyond reasonable doubt

CAT

Convention against Torture/Committee against Torture

CCPR

Centre for Civil and Political Rights

CDE

Moldovan Council on Preventing and Eliminating Discrimination and Ensuring Equality

CED

International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance/Committee on Enforced Disappearances

CEDAW

Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women/Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

CERD

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

CESCR

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

CIDT

Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment

CMW

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

CoE

Council of Europe

CRC

Convention on the Rights of the Child/Committee on the Rights of the Child

CRPD

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

ECCHR

European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights

ECHR

European Convention on Human Rights

ECmHR

European Commission on Human Rights

ECtHR

European Court of Human Rights

EU

European Union

FA

Forensic Architecture

GR

General recommendation [issued by a UNTB]

HRC

Human Rights Committee

IACmHR

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

IACtHR

Inter-American Court of Human Rights

ICCPR

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

ICERD

International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

ICESCR

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

ICJ

International Court of Justice

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

ICRC

International Committee of the Red Cross

ICSID

International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes

ISHR

International Service for Human Rights

NGO

Non-governmental organisation

OHCHR

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

OP-…

Optional Protocol to … (affixed to the abbreviation of the relevant treaty, e.g. OP-CEDAW; OP-CRPD; OP-ICCPR; OP-ICESCR)

SAC

[Finnish] Supreme Administrative Court

SPT

Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

TPI

Third-party intervention

UDHR

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

UHRI

Universal Human Rights Index

UN

United Nations

UNDRIP

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

UNODC

UN Office on Drugs and Crime

UN OHCHR

United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

UNSC

United Nations Security Council

UNTB

United Nations human rights treaty body

UNTS

United Nations Treaty Series

UPR

Universal Periodic Review

WGAD

Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

WGEID

Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances

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