Abbreviations

ALSF

African Legal Support Facility

AOF

Afrique-Occidentale française (French West Africa)

ARPS

Aborigines’ Rights Protection Society

ASF

Avocats Sans Frontières

AU

African Union

BSAC

British South Africa Company

CAISTAB

Caisse de stabilisation et de soutien des prix des productions agricoles

CAJAC

China-Africa Joint Arbitration Centre

CCFD

Terre solidaire Comité Catholique contre la Faim et pour le Développement

CCJ

Caribbean Court of Justice

CFTC

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

CNDA

Cour nationale du droit d’asile (National Court of Asylum, France)

CNDD-FDD

National Council for the Defense of Democracy – Forces for the Defense of Democracy

DAC

Development Assistance Committee of the OECD

DFC

US International Development Finance Corporation

DRC

Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo

EACA

East African Court of Appeal

EACJ

East African Court of Justice

EALS

East Africa Law Society

ECCAS

Economic Community of Central African States

ECCHR

European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights

ECHR

European Court of Human Rights

ECOWAS

Economic Community of West African States

EEC

European Economic Community

EGC

Entreprise Générale du Cobalt

ÉIC

État indépendant du Congo (Congo Free State)

EU

European Union

FCPA

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

FDI

Foreign Direct Investment

FIDH

Fédération internationale pour les droits humains (International Federation for Human Rights)

FRODEBU

Front pour la démocratie du Burundi (Front for Democracy in Burundi)

GDP

Gross Domestic Product

GTP

Global Traders Programme

GVA

gross value added

GVCs

global value chains

IBC

International Business Company

ICC

International Criminal Court

ICC in Paris

International Court of Arbitration of the Paris International Chamber of Commerce

ICCO

International Cocoa Organization

ICJ

International Court of Justice

ICSID

International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes – World Bank Group

ICTR

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

IDI

Institut de droit international (Institute of International Law)

IFIs

international financial institutions

IGLP

Institute for Global Law & Policy – Harvard Law School

IMF

International Monetary Fund

IMTFE

International Military Tribunal for the Far East

INGO

international non-governmental organisation

IO

international organisation

ISDA

International Swaps and Derivatives Association

ISDS

investor-state dispute settlement

JCPC

Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (Privy Council)

LDH

Human Rights League (Ligue des droits de l’Homme et du citoyen)

LID

Living Income Differential

Li-ion battery

Lithium-ion battery

LME

London Metal Exchange

MIFERMA

Mines de fer de la Mauritanie

MPF

Brazilian Ministério Público Federal

MSF

Médecins sans frontières (Doctors Without Borders)

MTLD

Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties

NGO

non-governmental organisation

NIEO

New International Economic Order

ODA

Official Development Assistance

OECD

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

OFPRA

Office Français de Protection des Réfugiés et des Apatrides (French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons)

OHADA

Organisation pour l’harmonisation en Afrique du droit des affaires (Organisation for the Harmonisation of Business Law in Africa)

OPEC

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

PCA

Permanent Court of Arbitration

PCIJ

Permanent Court of International Justice

PDCI-RDA

Democratic Party of Côte d’Ivoire – African Democratic Rally (Rassemblement Démocratique Africain (Côte d’Ivoire))

SEC

Securities and Exchange Commission (United States)

SFO

Serious Fraud Office (United Kingdom)

TNCs

transnational corporations

TTIP

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

UNCITRAL

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law

UNCTAD

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

UNHCR

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

UNOC

United Nations Operation in Congo

UPRONA

Union pour le progrès national (Union for National Progress)

USAID

United States Agency for International Development

WACA

West African Court of Appeal

WB

World Bank