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Issue number
89
February 2023

No Means No – to the War in Ukraine

No Means No action day poster

On the 20th of February 2023, we - Nash Dom, Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, Connection e.V., Federation for Social Defence, European Bureau for Conscientious Objection, International Fellowship of Reconciliation, Agir pour la paix and War Resisters’ International – call for demonstrations outside Belarusian embassies across Europe. These protests will draw attention to the danger of Belarus joining Russia by sending military personnel to attack Ukraine.

Conference announcement! Antimilitarist Roots, June 2023

a crowd of people at a WRI conference with the conference logo super imposed

We are excited to announce that the War Resisters' International network is preparing to gather in London, in June 2023. We will hold a public conference called Antimilitarist Roots: nonviolent resistance for a world in crisis.

Ukraine: Drop all charges against Vitaly Alekseenko immediately

Poster for the joint statement

In Ukraine, on 16 January 2023, Ivano-Frankivsk Appeal Court rejected the appeal of 46-year-old Christian Vitaly Alekseenko against his conviction for refusing call up to the military on conscientious grounds. The organisations signing this statement express their full solidarity with Vitaly Alekseenko and urge the Ukrainian authorities to drop all charges against him immediately. The organisations underline that his conviction occurs in the context that Ukraine has suspended the right of conscientious objection in the current emergency and call for the relevant decree to be immediately reversed.

Closing the WRI office at Caledonian Road

The WRI nameplate on the office door

For a number of decades, War Resisters' International has had an office at 5 Caledonian Road, above Housmans Bookshop. We have recently made the decision to end our tenancy and move all of our staff to remote working.