WHEN?
Friday, 13 February
19:00 — 22:00
WHERE?
Salesianum
St.-Wolfgangs-Platz 11
81669 Munich
«I Refuse! — Conscientious Objection as Resistance to State and Military» as part of the 24th International Munich Peace Conference, 13 — 15 February
Photo: peaceconference.info
January 23rd, 2026
The undersigned organizations express serious concern regarding the continued persecution of Ukrainian human rights defender Yurii Sheliazhenko, a conscientious objector to military service. He is currently under an alarming threat of being arrested and forcibly conscripted under Ukraine’s system of universal military registration, which is enforced through coercive measures including arbitrary detentions and forced transfers to conscription offices. Such practices effectively compel conscientious objectors to act against their beliefs and directly violate Article 18(2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which prohibits coercion impairing freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
23th December 2025
«On the days when we celebrate the birth of the savior of humanity, Jesus Christ, all the Earth should be immersed in an atmosphere of quiet joy and love between fellow humans.
His message “blessed are the peacemakers” is more relevant than ever today, when people are senselessly killing each other in dozens of wars around the world. Merchants of death, butcher commanders and propagandists of hatred revel in almost dictatorial power and call this savagery “civilization”. But there is nothing civil in this militarization. In civilized democratic countries, all these armies of militaristic barbarians would have long ago been sent to a psychologist for treatment at a support group for anonymous war addicts.
I am writing this after another massive attack on the Kyiv city where I live and other Ukrainian cities by the Russian army, which continues to kill mercilessly my fellow citizens, destroy our homes, deprive us of electricity, water and heating. […]»
Read the full text: »Ні війні на Різдво« ⸻ ВІЛЬНІ ЦИВІЛЬНІ ↷ (No War on Christmas ⸻ FREE CIVILIANS)
