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]