Glossary

AAP Aam Aadmi Party [India]

ACA Affordable Care Act [USA]

AI artificial intelligence

ANC African National Congress [South Africa]

APC All Progressives Congress [Nigeria]        

ASUU Academic Staff Union of Universities [Nigeria]

BARMM Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao [The Philippines]

BEA Bureau of Economic Analysis [USA]

BJP Bhartiya Janta Party [India]

CAB Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro [The Philippines]

CEBRAP Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento [Brazilian Centre for Analysis and Planning, Brazil]

CEDAW Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

CEPAL Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe [Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Chile]

CHR Commission on Human Rights [The Philippines]

COSMOS Center on Social Movements Studies [Italy]

CPAC Conservative Political Action Conference [USA]

CSDS Centre for the Study of Developing Societies [India]

CSO civil society organisation

DBT direct benefit transfer

DFID Department for International Development [UK]

DOGE Department of Government Efficiency [USA]

EAPN European Alliance of Peoples and Nations [Italy]

ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States [Nigeria]

EDUFBA Editora da Universidade Federal da Bahia [Federal University of Bahia Press, Brazil]

EITI Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative [Norway]

EIU Economist Intelligence Unit [UK]

EJK extra-judicial killing

EVM electoral voting machine

FDI foreign direct investment    

FDR Franklin Delano Roosevelt

GBV gender-based violence

GI Generation Identity [UK]

GOP Grand Old Party [Republican Party, USA]

GST Goods and Services Tax [India]

HRW Human Rights Watch [USA]

I&I ideas and information

ICC International Criminal Court [The Philippines]

ICNL International Center for Not-for-Profit Law [USA]

ICTD International Centre for Tax and Development [UK]

IDEAS Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives [Pakistan]

IMF International Monetary Fund [USA]

INC Indian National Congress

INSCR Integrated Network for Societal Conflict Research [Austria]

LGBTQ lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer 

LGBTQI+ lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex 

LGBTQIA+ lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, asexual 

LUMS Lahore University of Management Sciences [Pakistan]

M5S Five Star Movement [Italy]

MAGA Make America Great Again

MILF Moro Islamic Liberation Front [The Philippines]

MNLF Moro National Liberation Front [The Philippines]

NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement

NANS National Association of Nigerian Students

NCA National Climate Assessment [USA]

NDA National Development Alliance [India]

NEIM Núcleo de Estudos Interdisciplinares sobre a Mulher [Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Women, Brazil]

NGO non-governmental organisation

NYM Nigeria Youth Movement

OBC Other Backward Caste [India]

OGP Open Government Partnership [USA]

OPAPP Office of the Presidential Advisor on the Peace Process [The Philippines]

OPAPRU Office of the Presidential Advisor on Peace Reconciliation and Unity [The Philippines]

OSU Ohio State University [USA]

PBBM President Bong Bong Marcos [The Philippines]

PCW Philippine Commission on Women

PDP Peoples Democratic Party [Nigeria]

PDVSA Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A.

PEGIDA Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes [Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West, Germany]

PNoy President Noy Noy Aquino [The Philippines]

PT Partido dos Trabalhadores [Workers’ Party, Brazil]

RCs Resistance Committees [Sudan]

RSF Rapid Support Forces [Sudan]

SAF Sudanese Armed Forces

SARS Special Anti-Robbery Squad [Nigeria]

SNS Scuola Normale Superiore [Italy]

SP Samajwadi Party [India]

SPA Sudanese Professionals’ Association

TDP Telugu Desam Party [India]

UBJP United Bangsamoro Justice Party [The Philippines]

UFBA Universidade Federal da Bahia [Federal University of Bahia, Brazil]

UN United Nations

UNDP United Nations Development Programme [USA]

UNICAMP Universidade Estadual de Campinas [Campinas State University, Brazil]

UNIFEM United Nations Development Fund for Women [USA]

UP Uttar Pradesh [India]

UPS Union Progressiste Sénégalaise [Senegalese Progressive Union]

US United States

USAID United States Agency for International Development

V-Dem Varieties of Democracy [Sweden]

WHO World Health Organization [Switzerland]