ABS
Access and benefit-sharing
ABSCH
Access and Benefit-Sharing Clearing-House
ACHPR
African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
AfCHPR
African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights
AIATSIS
Australian Institutes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Studies
ANDES
Asociación para la naturaleza y el desarrollo sostenible (Peru)
ANR
Agence Nationale de Recherche (France)
ARC
Australian Research Council
AREI
Aboriginal Research Ethics Initiative
Artt
Articles
BC
Biocultural
BCP
Biocultural Community Protocol
CBD
Convention on Biological Diversity
CBMIS
Community-based Monitoring and Information Systems
CBNRM
Community-based natural resource management
CERD
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
CESCR
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
CGRFA
C ommission on Genetic Resources for Food and
Agriculture (FAO)
CIHR
Canadian Institutes for Health Research
CITES
Convention on the International Trade in Endangered
Species
COP
Conference of the parties
CP
Community Protocol
CRIAA
SA-DC Centre for Research, Information, Action in
Africa - Development & Consulting Namibia
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