The Conscientious Objector Support Group (COSG), a support group to conscientious objectors (COs) in South Africa, was formed in 1978. The organisation...

resistance to war has a long tradition, and a history that includes conscientious objectors, pacifists, deserters and draft dodgers, as well as those whose...

A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of conscience or...

the Conscientious Objector Support Group. She would later become a founding member of the End Conscription Campaign in 1983 as the conscientious objectors...

Hwang, claim that the culture of militarism is so pervasive that Conscientious Objectors are stripped of the rights discussed in the Constitution when universal...

moral beliefs.: 5  A conscientious objector may still be willing to use force to defend themselves or others, and may even support a state's right to go...

leader and World War I conscientious objector, James Maxton. His father, also named John Maxton, was also a conscientious objector in World War I, and the...

concessions to conscientious objectors that many governments allow in the case of conscription, thereby allowing conscientious objectors to insist that...

מסרבות, lit. 'Refusers (fem.)') is an Israeli organization supporting conscientious objectors in their total refusal to serve in the Israel Defense Forces...

Committee" and supported aid to Britain, the draft and other preparations for war. Of the more than 72,000 men registering as conscientious objectors (CO), nearly...

of oppression and apartheid". A network of conscientious objectors called Mesarvot provided legal support to refuseniks. An eighteen-year-old woman was...

D.C., dedicated to defending and extending the rights of conscientious objectors. The group participates in the G.I. Rights Hotline, and works against...

1881 – 10 August 1970) was a New Zealand socialist, pacifist and conscientious objector. Baxter was born at Saddle Hill, Otago, on 13 December 1881, to...

seek discharge after voluntary enlistment. It was active in supporting conscientious objectors ("CO's"), war resisters, and draft evaders during the Vietnam...

Meeting is still active today. A pacifist, Baker was registered as a conscientious objector during World War II. His description of justifying this to his tribunal...

beginning of World War II in 1939, Cammaerts declared himself a conscientious objector, but in 1942 he joined the SOE. He recruited and supplied with arms...

The Richmond Sixteen were a group of "absolutist" British conscientious objectors, during the First World War. Conscripted into the British Army in 1916...

adherent of absolute pacifism, and during the First World War was a conscientious objector, allowed to perform Work of National Importance by assisting on...

university, Keyes was required to register for the draft. He requested conscientious objector status from the Selective Service Commission. But he felt uneasy...

Halil Savda (born 1974) is a Turkish conscientious objector who has been subjected to continued arrest and conviction for his refusal to serve mandatory...

spring, two anti-war groups, Iraq Veterans Against the War and Courage to Resist, had initially supported Abdo's conscientious objector bid. In a statement...

him a star, secured him a contract with Universal—and made him a conscientious objector to World War II. He made a number of mostly forgotten B movies for...

organising against conscription in Cyprus, and supported conscientious objector Yiannis Parpas. Anarchists supported the reunification of Cyprus, and saw the...

pacifist. He opposed the First World War and was imprisoned as a conscientious objector. In the 1923 General Election, Hughes was the unsuccessful Labour...

for deferments or exemptions, and assign draftees classified as conscientious objectors to alternative service work. All male U.S. citizens and immigrant...

Concurrently, he spent several years challenging his draft status as a conscientious objector. During the 1980s, Wilson attempted to launch a solo career, releasing...

affiliation, to conscientious objector status..." As World War II progressed he organized and deployed Canadian conscientious objectors to the Friends'...

Air Force enlistees stated they were seeking conscientious objector status due to the United States' support for Israel's action in Gaza. Amongst the Muslim...

principles extended to sheltering John Rodker, "on the run" as a conscientious objector during World War I; when he became liable to conscription by the...

days. The right to Conscientious Objection was legally recognised in 1920: An alternative community service for conscientious objectors was easily available...