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On-line Resources for Conscientious Objection to Military Service

QUNO Publications

• Briefing Paper on Conscientious Objection, February 2007 (pdf 110 kb)


• Civil and Political Rights: Conscientious Objection to Military Service, 1 March 2006, Written statement to the Commission on Human Rights (pdf 20kb)


• References to CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION in the documents submitted to, and resolutions of, the UN Commission on Human Rights, 61st Session, March - April 2005 (pdf 947 kb)


• Civil and Political Rights, Including the Questions of: Conscientious Objection to Military Service, 18 February 2005,
  Friends World Committee for Consultation (pdf 105 kb).


• References to CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION in the documents submitted to, and resolutions of, the UN Commission on Human Rights, 60th Session, March - April 2004 (pdf 247 kb)


• "References to Conscientious Objection to Military Service in the documents submitted to and resolutions of the UN Commission on Human Rights during the 59th Session." R. Brett (pdf 36 kb)

FWCC Statements

• Conscientious Objection to Military Service, 1 April 2005, FWCC oral statement delivered by Eleanor Andrews (pdf 107kb)


• Conscientious Objection to Military Service, April 2004, FWCC oral statement to 60th session of UN Commission for Human Rights, delivered by Rachel Taylor (pdf 84 kb)


• Administration of Justice, Rule of Law and Democracy, 15 July 2003 written statement submitted by FWCC and World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) to the 55th Session of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Rachel Brett (pdf 168 kb)


• Civil and Political Rights, including the Question of: Conscientious Objection to Military Service, 1 February 2000 written statement submitted by FWCC(pdf 12 kb)


• Conscientious Objection to Military Service , 9 April 2003, oral statement to the 59th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights delivered by R. Brett (pdf 17 kb)

Related Links

• Military Recruitement and Conscientious Objection: A Thematic Survey', 2006, Conscience and Peace Tax International
• 'The Right of Conscientious Objection in Europe: A Review of the Current Situation', Quaker Council of European Affairs (QCEA)
• The NGO Conscience & Peace Tax International (CPTI)
• High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
• American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
• War Resisters’ International
• Amnesty International
• Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC)

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