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 | Upcoming events: NATO summit in Portugal |
19.11.2010 - 21.11.2010 Lisbon (Portugal) The No-to-NATO-coalition organizes a manifestation, counter-conference and actions of civil disobedience. The official agenda contains approval of the new Strategic Concept, a decision on NATO's involvement in missile defence. There are also discussion on actions of civil disobedience before or during the NATO summit. Contact: War Resisters' International | |
| Turkey: New prison sentence for violation of article 318 |
Amnesty International reports that conscientious objector Halil Savda and three other activists were convicted on 17 June 2010 under Article 318 of the Turkish Penal Code which criminalises ?alienating the public from military service?. | |
| Belarus: progress for conscientious objectors? |
As reported on CO-Update No 54, February/March 2010, Belorussian President Lukashenko ordered the drafting of a law on substitute service on 18 February 2010. Following this order, Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky issued an instruction on 31 March 2010 to set up an Interagency Working Group to draft a law on substitute service. The Working Group includes 13 members from different government ministries and agencies, and is to submit a draft to the Council of Ministers by 1 September 2010. | |
| Paraguay: Law on conscientious objection as backlash |
The first Paraguayan law on conscientious objection limits the right to conscientious objection | |
| Editorial |
Dear readers of CO-Update. a little late, but here it is - CO-Update No 57, July 2010. From 1-5 July 2010, we took part in the European Social Forum in Istanbul, which is the reason for the delay of this issue of CO-Update. However, while in Istanbul we caught up with Turkish conscientious objector Halil Savda (see article on Turkey), and other Turkish antimilitarists. | |
| Women Conscientious Objectors ? An Anthology |
Conscientious objectors are generally seen as male ? as are soldiers. This book breaks with this assumption. Women conscientiously object to military service and militarism. Not only in countries which conscript women ? such as Eritrea and Israel ? but also in countries without conscription of women. In doing so, they redefine antimilitarism from a feminist perspective, opposing not only militarism, but also a form of antimilitarism that creates the male conscientious objector as the ?hero? of antimilitarist struggle. | |
| NATO Headquarters in Europe |
This map shows most of NATO's headquarters in Europe. You can click on a symbol to find out more. Clicking again will make the description disappear. This map is based on OpenStreetMap, and uses OpenLayers for placing of the icons. You can click on an icon to see more information. You can also zoom in and out (see zoombar on the left), or move around on the map. You can switch on/off different layers using the layer switcher on the top right. | |
| Nuclear weapons and nuclear power in Britain |
This is a clickable map of past, present, and planned nuclear power stations in Britain, plus important sites of Britain's nuclear weapons programme. This map is based on OpenStreetMap, and uses OpenLayers for placing of the icons. You can click on an icon to see more information. You can also zoom in and out (see zoombar on the left), or move around on the map. | |
| Manual para Campañas Noviolentas |
Este manual compartelo que gente ya ha desarrollado a partir de contextos diferentes. | |
| Hamas evalúa el reclutamiento obligatorio en Gaza |
CIUDAD DE GAZA?El ministro de Interior de la Franja de Gaza, una zona gobernada por la organización islámica Hamas, anunció el martes que analiza la posibilidad de decretar el servicio militar obligatorio para ampliar su poderío militar, aunque al principio sería solamente con reclutas voluntarios. La medida podría incrementar el control de Hamas en la Franja de Gaza y aumentar la animosidad entre la entidad islámica y la Autoridad Palestina. Hamas cuenta ahora con una milicia pagada de 18.000 hombres armados. |
