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Right to Refuse to Kill
Upcoming events 23 April 2010: Book Launch: Women and Conscientious Objection
01 Mar 2010 — warresistersHousmans Bookshop, 7pm
On 23 April, War Resisters' International will launch its new publication "Women and Conscientious Objection" at Housmans Bookshop in London. The editors and some of the contributors will be present.
Militarization and masculinities
01 Mar 2010 — warresistersRefusing militarism is not possible without refusing hegemonic masculinity
Andreas Speck, War Resisters' International
“Questioning the militarist value system and its practices which are identified with military service, one is also obliged to question the hegemonic understanding of masculinity. In Turkey, military service is a laboratory in which masculinity is reproduced. The patriarchal system is solidified through military service.
Greece: New trials against conscientious objectors - endless recoil
17 Feb 2010 — warresistersRelated peace activists:
Joint Public Statement by European Bureau for Conscientious Objection, War Resisters' International, Amnesty International Greek Section
Two times is not enough - German total objector to be sentenced a third time?
10 Feb 2010 — warresistersRelated peace activists:
On Tuesday, 9 February 2010, German total objector Fabian Schulz had to face trial a third time for his refusal to do substitute service.
European Court of Human Rights fails to uphold international human rights standards
02 Nov 2009 — warresistersJoint statement of European Bureau for Conscientious Objection, Quaker United Nations Office, Geneva, and War Resisters' International on the ECtHR Third section judgement Bayatyan v. Armenia (Application no.
Honduras: Resistance against reform of military service
03 Sep 2009 — warresisters
Students demonstrate against obligatory military serviceAfter the military coup in Honduras in June 2009, resistance is growing in the country to what is seen as a reintroduction of conscription, which had been abolished by a constitutional amendment in 1994. Already in July 2009, human rights activists accused the Honduran military to forcefully recruit for the Armed Forces.
Testimonies of Conscience sent from the Soviet Union to the War Resisters' International 1923-1929
18 Aug 2009 — warresistersThis pamphlet is a collection of reports sent to the War Resisters' International from the Soviet Union. They are excerpted from the War Resisters' International Bulletin and its continuation appearing under the title The War Resister.
These are testimonies mostly by Tolstoyan communities in the Soviet Union, sent to the WRI office.
This booklet helps to illuminate Soviet COs' second "time of trouble" and aids in understanding of how an antiwar movement of such initial promise ended in defeat and tragedy after only a few years.
Publisher:
War Resisters' International and Peter Brock
Year published:
1997
ISBN:
978-0-9690997-2-7
Price: £3.00 (US$4.68 ; €3.43)
Conscientious Objection. Resisting Militarized Society
18 Aug 2009 — warresisters
Refusing to take part in war is as old as war itself.
Publisher:
Zed Books
Year published:
2009
ISBN:
978-1-84813-278-8
Price: £19.99 (US$31.19 ; €22.83)
Professional soldiers and the right to conscientious objection in the European Union
18 Aug 2009 — warresisters
This publication provides an overview of the present state of the right to conscientious objection in the European Union, including the candidate countries Croatia, Turkey, and FYROM (Macedonia). This publication was produced in close co-operation with War Resisters' International (WRI). It builts on the global survey on the situation of conscientious objectors by War Resisters' International from 1998 and their update by Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) from 2005.
Publisher:
European Parliamentary Group European United Left / Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL)
Year published:
2008
Price: £0.00 (US$0.00 ; €0.00)
HRW report denounces conscription in Eritrea
20 Apr 2009 — howclarkOn 16 April 2009, Human Rights Watch produced a 95-page report - Service for Life - which includes a detailed description of human rights abuses involved in the practice of conscription in Eritrea, not only against the conscripts themselves but also their families, and not only during the period of military service but in forced labour afterwards.
The report in full is available here.
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