HUMAN RIGHTS Participants at the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting browse OSCE publications during a break. (OSCE/Piotr Markowski) events for the OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation in Vienna. The first event, on 19 April, addressed the economic and social rights of women who serve in the armed forces. The second event, on 14 October, focused on the role of ombuds institutions in protecting the rights of armed forces personnel. In July, ODIHR organized an event entitled “Orientation on Oversight, Human Rights and Gender in the Armed Forces” with the Georgian Parliamentary Defence Committee and Ministry of Defence. The event was part of wider efforts to increase the accountability, transparency and openness of the security sector in Georgia. Also in July, ODIHR trained 20 parliamentarians in Montenegro on regional standards for combating violence against women and the importance of a responsive security sector in addressing the needs of women experiencing violence in the family. ODIHR organized and hosted a meeting for civil society on human rights monitoring in the armed forces on 4 and 5 March in Warsaw. Mistreatment and bullying, limitations on military associations, a lack of human rights training and insufficient oversight were reported as major concerns. A key recommendation from the meeting was to increase access by civil society to the security sector and formalize its oversight role in human rights protection. Participants were also trained by ODIHR on the basis of its Gender and Security Sector Reform Toolkit. In November, ODIHR, together with the European Organisation of Military Associations (EUROMIL), organized a meeting in Madrid on the role of military associations. Despite some progress, most participants agreed that military personnel were still restricted in their ability to form and join associations in a number of participating States. ODIHR implemented three short-term projects with local NGO partners in Armenia, Moldova and Tajikistan, respectively, during the year. The projects in Armenia and Moldova saw more than 800 potential and new conscripts trained on how to assert their rights, seek assistance and report violations. In Tajikistan, 368 physicians involved in conscription 48  /   ODIHR Annual Report 2013