conscientious objectors

SMS Peretola, via Pratese 48, Florence The peace movement has concretely supported Russian Belarusian and Ukrainian conscientious objectors, deserters and draft dodgers who are denied the right not to kill or fight, a right that should be universally recognized. Italy…

Russian pacifist, democratic, civil, and human rights movements are directly addressing the European Union, Commission, and Parliament to demand immediate and concrete measures to protect conscientious objectors and all those in Russia who refuse to participate in the war and…

On the occasion of the interactive dialogue with the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation in Ukraine, held at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 31st, IFOR’s main representative to the UN Ms. Zaira Zafarana…

When will the war in Ukraine end? What do Italians think about the conflict? What is the best approach, the military or the diplomatic? Moving crosswise between various themes and drawing on his long experience as a war correspondent, Nico…

In Turkey, the first conscientious objectors publicly declared their objections in the early 1990s and stood up against war, the military and compulsory service. At first there were only a few who decided to go public, like Vedat Zencir, Tayfun…