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Refuser Updates is a weekly newsletter that shares stories of Israeli and Palestinian War Resistance.

In memory of the Holocaust, we refuse genocide

One week after the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we continue to fight for an end to Israel’s wars of aggression in the shadow of its ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. With the news of Trump’s plans to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip – and the completion of a riviera on the ashes of those killed in Israel’s murderous war – we continue forward with our struggle. Our refusal to serve genocide is not new, part of a much longer story.

Olga Karach during the Award Ceremony of the Bremen Peace Prize on May 31, 2024.

Speech at the 90th CEDAW Session on Belarus

(06.02.2025) Honorable Committee Members, As the head of the International Center for Civil Initiatives ’Our House’, I appeal to the CEDAW Committee for Action.

UN Human Rights Committee Calls on Turkey: Recognise the Right to Conscientious Objection

(11.11.2024) Dear fellows, I am sending this e-mail to inform you about a recent observation by the UN Human Rights Committee. The UN Human Rights Committee considered Turkey’s second periodic report and reports from different civil society organizations during its meetings in October and issued its concluding observations in a document on 7 November 2024.

Review to conscientious objection on Turkey and Kyrgyzstan at United Nations

(01.11.2024) Connection e.V. has prepared and submitted to the UN two reports concerning the situation of the right to conscientious objection to military service in Turkey and Kyrgyzstan, in preparation of the Universal Periodic Review of these countries which will take place in April 2025.