AAA | Alliance Against AIDS (Belize) |
ACHPR | African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights |
ACLJ | American Center for Law and Justice |
ADF | Alliance Defending Freedom |
AHA | Anti-Homosexuality Act (Uganda) |
AHB | Anti-Homosexuality Bill (Uganda) |
AFRA | Artists for Recognition and Acceptance (Kenya) |
AIDS | Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome |
ALF | Alternative Law Forum (India) |
amfAR | American Foundation for AIDS Research |
ANC | African National Congress |
APAA | Africans in Partnership Against AIDS (Canada) |
APRM | African Peer Review Mechanism |
ARC | ARC International |
ASAAP | Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention (Canada) |
AU | African Union |
AUC | African Union Commission |
AWID | Association for Women’s Rights and Economic Change |
BOC | Basis of Claim (Canada) |
BlackCAP | Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention (Canada) |
BONELA | Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS |
CAL | Coalition of African Lesbians (South Africa) |
CCM | Country Coordinating Mechanism (Belize) |
Caricom | Caribbean Community and Common Market |
CariFLAGS | Caribbean Forum for Liberation and Acceptance of Genders and Sexualities |
CEDAW | Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women |
CEHURD | Centre for Health, Human Rights and Development (Uganda) |
CCR | Center for Constitutional Rights (US) |
CFR | Centre for Feminist Research (York University, Canada) |
C-FAM | Centre for Family and Human Rights |
CHOGM | Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting |
Canadian Mental Health Association | |
(the) Consortium | Consortium on Monitoring Violations Based on Sex Determination, Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation (Uganda) |
CSCHRCL | Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law (Uganda) |
CRTA | Caribbean Regional Trans in Action |
CSOs | civil society organisations |
CTAG | Caribbean Treatment Action Group |
CVC | Caribbean Vulnerable Communities coalition |
DCO | Designated Country of Origin |
DFN | Designated Foreign National |
EJE | extrajudicial executions |
EACJ | East Africa Court of Justice |
EI | Education International |
ECOSOC | United Nations Economic and Social Council |
FARUG | Freedom and Roam Uganda |
FTM | female-to-male |
FWI | Family Watch International |
GALCK | Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya |
GALE | Global Alliance for LGBT Education (Netherlands) |
GALZ | Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe |
GATE | Global Action for Trans* Equality |
GII | Gender Inequality Index (UNDP) |
GNSWP | Global Network of Sex Work Projects |
GTA | Greater Toronto Area |
GUYBOW | Guyana Rainbow Coalition |
HIV | Human Immunodeficiency Virus |
HRAPF | Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (Uganda) |
HRC | Human Rights Council |
HRW | Human Rights Watch |
IAHCR | Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (of the OAS) |
IBU | Ice Breakers Uganda |
ICCPR | International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |
ICESCR | International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
ICJ | International Commission of Jurists |
IDAHO(T) | International Day Against Homophobia (and Transphobia) |
IFHP | Interim Federal Health Program (Canada) |
IGLHRC | International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission |
IHRP | International Human Rights Program (University of Toronto, Canada) |
International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association | |
ILO | International Labour Organization |
IPC | Indian Penal Code |
IRB | Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
IRCU | Inter Religious Council of Uganda |
ISHR | International Service for Human Rights |
ITGNC | Intersex, transgender and gender non-conforming |
J-FLAG | Jamaican Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays |
JCHS | Jamaican Coalition for a Healthy Society |
KEMRI | Kenya Medical Research Institute |
KHRC | Kenya Human Rights Commission |
KNCHR | Kenya National Commission on Human Rights |
KNEC | Kenya National Examinations Council |
KULHAS | Kuchus Living with HIV/AIDS (Uganda) |
LeGaBiBo | Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals of Botswana |
LGBT | lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender |
LGBTI | lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex |
LGBTTTI | lesbian, gay, bisexual, transvestite, transgender, transsexual and intersex |
LGBTTTI | Latin American and Caribbean Coalition of lesbian, gay, |
Coalition | bisexual, transvestite, transgender, transsexual and intersex organisations |
MARP | Most at Risk Populations |
MARPI | Most at Risk Population Initiative (Uganda) |
MSM | men who have sex with men |
MUWRP | Makerere University Walter Reed Project (Uganda) |
MWA | Minority Women in Action (Kenya) |
NACO | National AIDS Control Organisation (India) |
NAC | National AIDS Commission (Belize) |
NAWG | National Advocacy Working Group (Belize) |
Naz India | Naz Foundation (India) Trust |
NGLHRC | National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (Kenya) |
NEPAD | New Partnership for African Development |
NFI | Naz Foundation International |
NGOs | non-governmental organisations |
NOII | No One Is Illegal |
OAS | Organization of American States |
OAU | Organization of African Unity |
OCASI | Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants |
OHCHR | Office of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights |
Organization Intersex International | |
OTHP | Ontario Temporary Health Program (Canada) |
OutRight | OutRight Action International |
OPEC | Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
PALU | Pan African Lawyers Union |
PAR | Participatory Action Research |
PEMA | Persons Marginalized and Aggrieved (Kenya) |
PIF | Personal Information Form (Canada) |
PLWA | people living with AIDS |
PRRA | Pre-Removal Risk Assessment (Canada) |
PSI | Public Services International |
PSMO | Pan American Social Marketing Organization PUAI Pride Uganda Alliance International (Canada) PUP Peoples United Party (Belize) |
RAD | Refugee Appeal Division (Canada) |
RCC | Roman Catholic Church |
RCMP | Royal Canadian Mounted Police |
RHO | Rainbow Health Ontario (Canada) |
RLP | Refugee Law Project (Uganda) |
SASOD | Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (Guyana) |
SMUG | Sexual Minorities Uganda |
SOGI | sexual orientation and gender identity |
SOGIE | sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression |
SOGIESC | sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, and sex characteristics |
SRI | Sexual Rights Initiative |
SSHRCC | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada |
STI | sexually transmitted illness |
TEA | Transgender Education and Advocacy (Kenya) |
The 519 | The 519 Church St. Community Centre (Canada) |
UDHR | Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
UHAI-EASHRI | UHAI−East African Sexual Health and Rights Initiative |
ULS | Uganda Law Society |
UN | United Nations |
UNAIDS | United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS |
UNDP | United Nations Development Programme |
UNESCO | United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation |
UNFPA | United Nations Population Fund |
UNGA | United Nations General Assembly |
UNHCHR | United Nations High Commission for Human Rights |
United Nations High Commission for Refugees | |
UNHRC | United Nations Human Rights Committee |
UNIBAM | United Belize Advocacy Movement |
UP | Ushirikiano Panda (Kenya) |
UPR | Universal Periodic Review |
U-RAP | University of West Indies Rights Advocacy Project |
VDPA | Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action |
WHO | World Health Organisation |
WIN | Women’s Issues Network of Belize |
WHIWH | Women’s Health in Women’s Hands (Canada) |
WSW |