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Conscientious Objection index page

WRI homepage > Programme Areas > The Right to Refuse to Kill > Project brochure

War Resisters' International's Right to Refuse to Kill programme is described in detail in the project leaflet (also available in pdf). The page you are now reading is meant mainly as an index to online resources rather than as a comprehensive description of the project.

CO Alerts | CO Update newsletter | International CO Day | Prisoners for Peace Day | Other campaigns | Press releases | CONCODOC: online book-length reports | Other resources

CO alerts

The CO-alert email list is specifically for alerts in cases of conscientious objection or antimilitarist action. Only the WRI office can post messages to this list. It is extremely important that many people subscribe to this list, so please help us promoting this list.

co-discuss

The co-discuss mailing list is for general discussion of CO organising activities and strategies. It is open for postings from all list members. You can join the list or visit the archive through the mailing list info page.

co-update

CO-update is a low-traffic, read-only list with a single monthly posting in HTML and plain text. Use this link to subscribe or visit the archive index at the top of this page.

CO Update e-newsletter

CO-Update now comes in multiple language versions -- see the archive page for more information.

Web editions of the CO-Update newsletter use print-media stylesheets to save paper when printing to A4; this does not affect the screen display.

15 May: International Conscientious Objectors' Day

1 December: Prisoners for Peace Day

Every year since 1956, War Resisters' International has compiled a list of those imprisoned for refusing military service or for nonviolently opposing war preparations, and has encouraged its supporters to write to prisoners or otherwise support their witness for nonviolence.

Other CO campaigns

Support Colombian Conscientious Objectors (2006-)

Despite 50 years of armed conflict, a new movement for conscientious objection is emerging in Colombia. These pages contains links to CO testimony and to recent WRI alerts and reports on the situation of conscientious objectors in Colombia.

Support Turkish Conscientious Objectors (2005-)

The situation of conscientious objectors in Turkey seems to become more difficult since the arrest of Mehmet Tarhan on 8 April 2005 in Izmir. This means that international support for Turkish COs is more important. These pages contains links to CO testimony and to recent WRI alerts and reports on the situation of conscientious objectors in Turkey.

Support Israeli Conscientious Objectors (2004-)

Conscientious objection to military service -- by Israeli women and men, in the reserves or the regular forces -- is only accepted in exceptional cases.
(in cooperation with New Profile and Connection e.v.)

Conscientious objection in war: Iraq crisis resources (2003-)

Press releases, documents, and reports

2008

2007

2006

2005

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2003

2002

Conscription and Conscientious Objection Documentation (CONCODOC)

CONCODOC is a project of War Resisters' International and its member organisations, which has produced two reference documents -- Refusing to bear arms: A worldwide survey of conscription and conscientious objection to military service, and A Conscientious Objector's Guide to the UN Human Rights System.

Refusing to Bear Arms online

The Refusing to Bear Arms report is now freely available here.

Additionally, you can read Spanish translations of the entries for 32 Latin American and Caribbean countries on this site through the Spanish-language index page.

The Conscientious Objector's Guide to the UN Human Rights System (WRI/CONCODOC, 2000)

Print editions of the above titles

Visit the pages listed below for more information and for order forms.

  1. Refusing to bear arms: A worldwide survey of conscription and conscientious objection to military service (1998)
  2. A Conscientious Objector's Guide to the UN Human Rights System (May 2000)

Other documents on conscription