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The 56th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council took place in Geneva between 18th June and 12th July 2024. During the 56th Session, War Resisters’ International, in collaboration with Connection e.V., has made oral statements on the right to conscientious objection to military service on several occasions.

Lithuania should protect Belarusian conscientious objectors and deserters, grant adequate legal protection and prevent their deportation!

Oops, what are Berlin ad posters doing in Helsinki? And why are they campaigning for asylum for conscientious objectors? The "adbusted" posters are calling for asylum for conscientious objectors from Belarus and Russia.

Eighteen years after the ECtHR issued its first judgment in favour of conscientious objector Osman Murat Ülke, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe issued a new interim resolution on violations of the right to conscientious objection to military service in Turkey.

I started writing this blog post after reading an article about another bombing in Gaza... but I’m also writing this after sitting in front of my computer for years, reading what feels like the same story again and again.

The European Bureau for Conscientious Objection, War Resisters’ International, the International Fellowship of Reconciliation IFOR, and Connection e.V.  condemn the 12-year prison sentence and a fine of 170,000 Euros imposed on EBCO board member Olga Karach in her recent trial in Belarus.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming central in newly produced weapons, like fighter aircraft and sensors.

Join us in this webinar with Daniel Møgster of the OHCHR who will introduce the recent report of the OHCHR on conscientious objection to military service.

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.

Global headlines are once again seized by the outbreak of armed conflict, detailing indescribable suffering and destruction. War, it feels, is everywhere and always. To some, this means business. Many of the facilitators and profiteers of armed conflict globally attended the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) in London, September 2023.