Compendium of Standards, Good Practices and Recommendations Acknowledgements This Compendium was drafted and peer-reviewed by the following experts: • Susan Atkins (Chapter 11: Women in the Armed Forces); • Mark Drumbl (Chapter 13: Children Associated with the Armed Forces); • Alison Duxbury (Chapter 18: Disciple and Military Justice) • Beth Hillman (Chapter 12: LGBTI Members in the Armed Forces); • Emmanuel Jacob (Chapter 15: Working Conditions and Support for Veterans); • Ian Leigh (Chapter 4: National Protections for the Human Rights of Armed Forces Personnel, Chapter 5: Civil and Political Rights, Chapter 6: Freedom of Expression, Chapter 7: Military Unions and Associations, Chapter 8: Conscientious Objection to Military Service, Chapter 9, Religion in the Armed Forces and Chapter 14: Preventing Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and Other Forms of Abuse of Armed Forces Personnel); • Rain Liivoja (Chapter 3: International Human Rights Law, Chapter 17: The Role of Commanders and Individual Accountability); • William McDermott (Chapter 1: Introduction, Chapter 19: Ombuds Institutions for the Armed Forces); • Marissa Reilly (Chapter 12: LGBTI Members in the Armed Forces) • Jonna Naumanen and Ewa Sapiezynska (Chapter 2: OSCE Commitments); and • Reetta Toivanen (Chapter 10: Ethnic, Racial and Linguistic Minorities in the Armed Forces, Chapter 16: Human Rights Education). ODIHR and DCAF would like to express their gratitude to Mark Knight, Alice Thomas and the many ODIHR and DCAF staff responsible for this publication for their contributions, useful comments on and reviews of this Compendium. Also to International Society for Military Law and the Law of War, the Subcommittee on Security and Defence of the European Parliament, and the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law at the University of Melbourne for giving a platform to present early findings of the Compendium. The two organizations appreciate all those who enriched the quality of this Compendium by commenting on and provided input to drafts, with special thanks to the interlocutors from the 25 participating States that completed the questionnaire providing useful examples. Finally, ODIHR and DCAF are grateful to the governments of Canada and Norway for their generous financial support in the development of this Compendium. 7