Category: NEWS

Connection e.V., EAK, PRO ASYL, 31.08.2023

Conscientious objection is a human right not only in times of peace but also in times of war

Russians who refuse to go to war in Ukraine should be protected in Germany without any «buts» or «ifs» — so far this is not happening. Connection e.V., the Protestant Association for Conscientious Objection and Peace (German: Evangelische Arbeitgemeinschaft für Kriegdienstverweigerung und Frieden, EAK) and PRO ASYL demand that the Federal Government of Germany (German: Bundesregierung) and the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (German: Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge, BAMF) make the situation better. More (in German)

Urgent Action, 25.08.2023

Following the denial of political asylum by the Lithuanian authorities for the Belarusian peacebuilder and human rights defender Olga Karach (Belarusian: Вольха Карач), the international campaign #protection4olga has just been launched to demand protection and asylum for the director of the organisation Our House.

She has been fighting for human rights in Belarus for years, including the right to conscientious objection to military service, and is therefore persecuted and faces capital punishment in her country of origin, where she has been labelled a «terrorist» by the regime. More (in English and German)

As Urgent Action we have prepared a protest eMail to the Lithuanian government, which you can send via that form (in English and German).

EBCO, WRI, IFOR, Connection e.V., 17.08.2023

The European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO), War Resisters’ International (WRI), the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) and Connection e.V. strongly condemn the fact that Yurii Sheliazhenko (Ukranian: Юрій Шеляженко), a well-known conscientious objector, pacifist, human rights defender and lawyer, Executive Secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement (Ukranian: Український Рух Пацифістів), has been placed under partial house arrest by the Solomyanskyi District Court of Kyiv on 15 August 2023. More