Abbreviations and glossary | European Union Agency for Asylum

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ACN	Action Congress of Nigeria
ACLED	Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project
ANPP	All Nigeria Peoples Party
APC	All Progressives Congress
APGA	All Progressives Grand Alliance
Asylum Procedures Directive (APD)	Directive 2013/32/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection

C
CAT	Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
CEAS	Common European Asylum System
CJEU	Court of Justice of the European Union
CJTF	Civilian Joint Task Force
COI	Country of origin information
CPC	Congress for Progressive Change

D
DDR	Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration Programme in the Niger Delta

E
EASO	European Asylum Support Office
ECHR	Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (European Convention on Human Rights), as amended by Protocols Nos. 11 and 14, 4 November 1950
ECtHR	European Court of Human Rights
ESN	Eastern Security Network
EU	European Union
EU Anti-Trafficking Directive	Directive 2011/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2011 on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims, and replacing Council Framework Decision 2002/629/JHA

F
FCT	Federal Capital Territory
FGM/C	Female genital mutilation/cutting

H
hisbah	Islamic police
HIV	Human immunodeficiency virus

I
ICC	International Criminal Court
ICTR	International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
ICTY	International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
IDP(s)	Internally displaced person(s)
IED	Improvised Explosive Device
IMN	Islamic Movement in Nigeria
IPA	Internal protection alternative
IPOB	Indigenous People of Biafra
ISWAP	Islamic State - West Africa

J
JAS	Internal protection alternative
JTF	Indigenous People of Biafra
juju	Islamic State - West Africa

L
LGA	Local Government Area
LGBTIQ	Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex and Queer persons

M
MASSOB	Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra
MEND	Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta
MNJTF	Multi-National Joint Task Force

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NAF	Nigerian Armed Forces
NAPTIP	Nigerian National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons
NDA	Niger Delta Avengers
NDPVF	Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force
NGO	Non-governmental organisation
NPF	Nigeria Police Force

O
OHCHR	(United Nations) Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

P
PDP	People's Democratic Party

Q
QD (Qualification Directive)	Directive 2011/95/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection, for a uniform status for refugees or for persons eligible for subsidiary protection, and for the content of the protection granted

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SARS	Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the NPF
Sharia	The religious law of Islam; Islamic canonical law
‘sodomy’	According to Sharia, ‘sodomy’ is a crime committed in the following way: ‘Whoever has anal coitus with any man is said to commit the offence of sodomy’ (Kaduna and Yobe); ‘Whoever has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man or woman is said to commit the offence of sodomy’ (all other Sharia-implementing states). Kano and Katsina qualify this: ‘with any man or woman through her rectum’. See http://www.sharia-in-africa.net/media/publications/sharia-implementation-in-northern-nigeria/vol_4_4_chapter_4_part_III.pdf
SSMPA	Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act

T
THB	Trafficking in Human Beings

U
UN	United Nations
UNICEF	United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
UNODC	United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

V
VAPP	Violence Against Persons Prohibition (bill)