The following acronyms appear in archive filenames and tags:
| ACHR | Asian Commission for Human Rights |
| AF | Advocacy Forum |
| AHRC | Asian Human Rights Commission |
| AI | Amnesty International |
| APF | Armed Police Force |
| APT | Association for the Prevention of Torture |
| AWC | Accountability Watch Committee |
| CHRGJ | Center for Human Rights and Global Justice |
| CIJ | Center for Investigative Journalism |
| CPN-M | Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) |
| DCAF | Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces |
| EU | European Union |
| FES | Friedrich Ebert Stiftung |
| FLR | Fordham Law Review |
| FOHRID | Human Rights and Democratic Forum |
| HRTMCC | Human Rights Treaty Monitoring Coordination Committee |
| HRW | Human Rights Watch |
| IBA | International Bar Association |
| ICG | International Crisis Group |
| ICJ | International Commission of Jurists |
| ICRC | International Committee of the Red Cross |
| ICTJ | International Center for Transitional Justice |
| IHRC | International Human Rights Clinic |
| IHRICON | Institute of Human Rights Communication, Nepal |
| INSEC | Informal Sector Service Centre |
| NA | Nepalese Army |
| NHRC | National Human Rights Commission |
| NP | Nepal Police |
| NPF | Nepal Press Freedom |
| OHCHR | Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights |
| RSF | Reporters Sans Frontières |
| SC | Supreme Court |
| SF | Security Forces |
| SINHAS | Studies in Nepali History and Society |
| TAF | The Asia Foundation |
| UN | United Nations |
| UPF | United People's Front |
| UPRC-N | United Revolutionary People's Council, Nepal |
| VDC | Village Development Committee |
| WGEID | Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearance |