War Resisters' Stories

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Issue number
94
February 2024

Antimilitarist Campaigning Lab: Call for applications

ACL poster

War Resisters’ International is happy to announce the Antimilitarist Campaigning Lab, an online workshop series exploring antimilitarist campaigning and its intersection with relevant issues such as the militarisation of borders, the climate crisis and the arms trade. Apply before 27th February to be part of this online workshop series.

Interview: Tarteel Al Junaidi of the Christian Peacemaker Teams in Hebron

A member of CPT accompanies a number of children in a street. They have their backs to the camera.

Following the horrendous attacks by Hamas in Israel on October 7th, and the reciprocal violence by the Israeli Defence Force and settlers in the West Bank, we met with Tarteel Al Junaidi, a member of the Christian Peacemaker Teams based in Hebron, to find out more about the situation there, and the work her organisation is doing.

Turkish-Cypriots should urgently have the human right to conscientious objection to military service recognised by law

poster for the joints statement in support of Mustafa Hurben

EBCO, WRI, IFOR, and Connection e.V. denounce the continuing prosecutions and imprisonments of conscientious objectors in the northern, Turkish-occupied, part of Cyprus (the self-styled “Turkish Republic of North Cyprus”). The right to conscientious objection to military service should be urgently recognised in line with the European and international law and human rights standards.

Cyprus (North): Conscientious objector Halil Karapaşoğlu on trial

Conscientious objectors Mustafa Hürben (left) and Halil Karapaşoğlu (right) in front of the court with their supporters

On Thursday (1st February), conscientious objector Halil Karapaşoğlu from North Cyprus (self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus) was on trial at the Security Forces Court in the northern part of Nicosia for his refusal to respond to the reserve call. Halil's case has been postponed to 14th March, 2024.