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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

The Conscientious Objectors' Commemorative Stone is on the north side of Tavistock Square, Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden. In 1994 a stone...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

Vietnam War and were then courts-martialed. They had all applied for conscientious objector status and been turned down by the Pentagon. The Army then ordered...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

1910 - September 15, 1939) was one of Jehovah's Witnesses and a Conscientious objector from Germany, and the first person to be killed for rejecting military...

Vietnam War. His local draft board had rejected his application for conscientious objector classification. In a unanimous 8–0 ruling (Thurgood Marshall recused...