Inter­na­tio­nal Support of Conscien­tious Objec­tors and Deserters

Connection e.V. reports on conscientious objection to military service for the UN UPR of Singapore and Latvia

10.10.2025 • «Connection e.V.» submitted two reports for the upcoming 52nd session of the UN UPR. All UN Members States have to go under review periodically at the UN Human Rights Council. This review is a political procedure where other Member States can make recommendations to the State under review which has the possibility to accept them and commit to fulfil them and report on them or refuse them.

Advocacy at the UN and much more, February till June 2025

Belarus, Mongolia, Eritrea, United States, Switzerland, Morocco, Guinea-Bissau, Kazakhstan, Türkiye, Latvia, ...

(15.06.2025) Zaira Zafarana, international advocacy coordinator of Connection e.V. raised the issue of conscientious objection to military service in different countries by submitting country-based reports to UN mechanisms for upcoming reviews and reporting.

Latvia - Conscientious objection to military service and related issues

Connection e.V. reports to the UN Human Rights Committee (144th session)

(May 2025) We reported that the right to conscientious objection to military service is not adequately recognised and implemented by the State party, since there is no genuinely civilian alternative service, the body examining applications is not independent and impartial, and there is no genuine recognition of the right to conscientious objection for professional members of the armed forces.

War In Europe: What Is Happening To Conscientious Objectors?

Press Release: Publication of EBCO Annual Report “Conscientious Objection to Military Service in Europe 2023/24”

(14.05.2024) The European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO) announces its forthcoming publication of its Annual Report “Conscientious Objection to Military Service in Europe 2023/24” on May 15^th, international conscientious objection day. It will be available online on 15 May 2024 on the EBCO website (www.ebco-beoc.org).

For the second year, this report is necessarily dominated by the war in Ukraine, with a large part of the space being taken up with reports of developments in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus and the situation of refugees from these countries. EBCO continues working on the #ObjectWarCampaign, which was jointly launched by Connection e.V., War Resisters’ International (WRI), International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), and European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO).