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 is a 2004 documentary film directed by Terry Benedict about the life of Desmond Doss, a conscientious objector who received...

World War I, conscientious objectors were permitted to serve in noncombatant military roles. About 2000 absolute conscientious objectors refused to cooperate...

who was killed in action during the Vietnam War and the second conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor. Bennett received the medal after...

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

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

Local Boards to be more harsh on conscientious objector claims. There are two types of status for conscientious objectors. If a person objects only to combat...

His life has been the subject of books, the 2004 documentary The Conscientious Objector, and the 2016 Oscar-winning film Hacksaw Ridge, in which he was...

Knight and Robert Schenkkan, based on the 2004 documentary The Conscientious Objector directed by Terry Benedict. Set in World War II, Andrew Garfield...

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

called conscientious objectors. Though these men had to either answer their conscription or face prison time, their status as conscientious objectors permitted...

A Conscientious Objector is an "individual who has refused to take part in the Great War". There were different meanings for this, for example, religious...

December 1979 – 25 August 2012) was a United States Army soldier, conscientious objector, playwright, and divinity student. He volunteered for the army in...

obligations protecting conscientious objectors from service in the military. John Rawls in his A Theory of Justice defines a conscientious objector as an individual...

particular. In late 1971 he was sentenced to one week in Adelaide Gaol as a conscientious non-complier with the National Service Act, and in February 1972 he...

avoidance are private and unpublicized. Examples include: Claiming conscientious objector status on the basis of sincerely held religious or ethical beliefs...

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

Academy Awards. Hacksaw Ridge is based on Benedict's documentary, The Conscientious Objector; a film about Medal of Honor winner Desmond Doss, who refused to...

countries, conscientious objectors have special legal status, which augments their conscription duties. For example, Sweden allows conscientious objectors to...

of conscientious objection is required by law, in the past there were several hurdles in place to discourage it. Until 1983 conscientious objectors had...

induction centre. White was the first Australian to be a public conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. Both this initial application for total exemption...

John Rodker and Joseph Leftwich). In the First World War he was a conscientious objector, and imprisoned in Bedford and Reading gaols. He is now known for...

named Antlion Soccer and Dear Esther, and a Doom 3 mod titled Conscientious Objector. The modding project was backed by the Arts and Humanities Research...

İnan Süver is a Turkish conscientious objector who served a prison term for desertion from the Turkish Armed Forces. Süver was drafted by the Turkish Armed...

Department of War's Board of Inquiry, which evaluated the sincerity of conscientious objectors. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge appointed Stone as the Attorney...

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...

alternative civilian work program for conscientious objectors in an attempt to reduce the numbers of objectors going to jail. That was never instituted...

focusing on American World War II veteran Desmond Doss, the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor. The film garnered praise from critics...

Union. York was drafted during World War I; he initially claimed conscientious objector status on the grounds that his religious denomination forbade violence...

expected to do. An individual exercising this freedom may be called a conscientious objector. The right to freedom of conscience is recognized by several international...