Inter­na­tio­nal Support of Conscien­tious Objec­tors and Deserters

Laudatory speech by Alexia Tsouni - Séan MacBride Prize 2022 and 2023

To Movement of Conscientious Objection Russia, Nash Dom, Asya Maruket and Ukrainian Pacifist Movement

(22.03.2024) Today the Seán MacBride Peace Prize of the International Peace Bureau was awarded to Saša Belik for the Movement of Conscientious Objection Russia, Olga Karach for Nash Dom, Asya Maruket and Yurii Sheliazhenko and his organisation Ukrainian Pacifist Movement. “I am so happy to honour such distinguished personalities, such powerful activists committed to peace and the human right to conscientious objection to military service, especially in wartime!”, said Alexia Tsouni in hier laudatory speech. Another laudatory speech was given by Rudi Friedrich from Connection e.V.

Digest of Movement of Conscientious Objectors Russia

January 2024

(02.03.2024) Hello friends! This is Artem Klyga from the Movement of Conscientious Objectors with the first digest of 2024. In January, authorities actively recruited foreigners for the war and intimidated young people with the army as a separate liability. MCO’s questions were raised before the  Russian delegation reported to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva. And the Supreme Court’s decision to ban LGBT was legally enforced.

Stop the war - Artyom Klyga MCO Russia two years after the start of the war against Ukraine

(23.02.2024) Artyom Klyga from the Movement of Conscientious Objection Russia gives a statement at the second anniversary of the start of the war against Ukraine.

Two years after the start of the war: PRO ASYL and Connection e.V. criticise asylum rejections of Russian refusers

(21.02.2024) Two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) continues to reject Russian refusers and obliges them to return to Russia. Connection e.V. and PRO ASYL are alarmed by the BAMF’s reasoning, which ignores the risk for Russian refusers of being recruited in a war that violates international law.