Connection e.V. at United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva 

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Standing up at the United Nations for conscientious objectors’s right to refuse to participate in the war in Ukraine

UN Human Rights Council, 57th Session

(28.03.2025) On Friday March 28th 2025 the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights presented his report on the situation of human rights in Ukraine at the United Nations in Geneva. Following several Member states taking the floor in the plenary of the Human Rights Council to comment and address questions to the High Commissioner, Connection e.V., together with War Resisters International, delivered an oral statement which also reported the names of several conscientious objectors to military service who are currently persecuted, sentenced or forcibly recruited.

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Oral statement on the violations of human rights of conscientious objectors to military service

Delivered at the UN in Geneva

(05.03.2025) Connection e.V., in collaboration with War Resisters International, participated in the related interactive dialogue of UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief and took the floor in the plenary of the Council addressing the concerning violations of human rights of conscientious objectors to military service, for instance, in Eritrea, Türkiye, Israel, Russia and Ukraine.

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Belarus: persecution of conscientious objectors to military service in the country

Connection e.V. reports to the UN Special Rapporteur on Belarus

(February 2025) Connection e.V. has worked in the last weeks to prepare a detailed report on Belarus, focusing on a conscientious objection to military service perspective to inform the report of the Special Rapporteur for the 59th session of the Human Rights Council (June 2025) about the situation of human rights in Belarus, with a focus on the right to vote and to be elected at genuine periodic elections and the situation of persons targeted for repression and/or deprived of their liberty for political motives.

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Report on the situation of the right to conscientious objection in Burkina Faso

Connection e.V. has submitted a report to the United Nations Human Rights Committee to contribute to the review procedure of Burkina Faso at its 143rd session.
Of particular concern is the conscription system which is not in line with international standards and rule of law and the trial of civilians by military courts. 
There is not an effective protection of the right to conscientious objection to military service in the country.

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