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Abbreviations and Acronyms AFL-CIO American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations BIC Bank Information Center (Washington-based NGO) CAFOD Roman Catholic relief and development agency, England and Wales CARE CARE, formerly Cooperative Americans for Relief Everywhere COHRE Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions CRS Catholic Relief Services EDF Environmental Defense Fund (now Environmental Defense) ERI EarthRights International ESC economic, social, and cultural (rights) EURODAD European Network on Debt and Development HRF Human Rights First (formerly Lawyers Committee for Human Rights) HRW Human Rights Watch ICCPR International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ICESCR International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights INGO international nongovernmental organization IRN International Rivers Network IRTK International Right to Know (campaign) IWHC International Women’s Health Coalition LCHR Lawyers Committee for Human Rights MOSOP Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Nigeria) MSF Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) MST Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (Brazil) NBA Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save the Narmada Movement) NGO nongovernmental organization RBA rights-based approach SDI Slum Dwellers International SPARC Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres TAC Treatment Action Campaign, South Africa UDHR Universal Declaration of Human Rights ix UNCED UN Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro, 1992) UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund USAID United States Agency for International Development WEDO Women’s Environment and Development Organization WSSD World Summit on Social Development (held in Copenhagen, 1995) x Abbreviations and Acronyms ...

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