APC

All Progressives Congress party

AVRR-IOM

Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration programme by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM)

BMZ

German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung)

BRGIE

Biafra Republic Government in Exile

CAT

International Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

CCPR

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

CCPR-OP2-DP

Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

CEDAW

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

CERD

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

CRC

International Convention on the Rights of the Child

CRPD

International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

ECOWAS

Economic Community of West African States

ESN

Eastern Security Network

ETAHT

Edo State Task Force Against Human Trafficking

FCT

Federal Capital Territory

FEWS NET

Famine Early Warning Systems Network

FGM/C

Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

GHI

Global Hunger Index

GIZ

German Society for International Cooperation (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit)

IDPs

Internally Displaced Persons

ILGA

International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association

ILO

International Labour Organization

IPOB

Indigenous People of Biafra

ISWAP

Islamic State West Africa Province

JAS

Jama’tu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad

Juju

A term commonly used to describe a spiritual belief system that involves the use of objects like amulets and the casting of spells1

LGA

Local Government Area

LGBTIQ

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (persons)

MPRR-SSA

Migrant Protection, Return and Reintegration Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa funded by the European Union (EU)

NACTAL

Network of Civil Society Organisations Against Child Trafficking, Abuse and Labour

NAPTIP

National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons

NHRC

National Human Rights Commission

NCFRMI

National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons

NIS

Nigerian Immigration Service

NPF

Nigeria Police Force

ORFA

Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa

PDP

People’s Democratic Party

SAM

Severe acute malnutrition

SARC

Sexual Assault Referral Centres

SGBV

Sexual and gender-based violence

SOP

Guidelines for Facilitating the Safe, Dignified and Voluntary Return, Readmission and Reintegration of Migrants in Nigeria Standard Operating Procedures

THB

Trafficking in Human Beings

VAPP Act

Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act

WOCON

Women's Consortium of Nigeria