At the end of Conscientious Objection Week, 14 people declared their conscientious objections following the march from Tünel to Taksim Square. At the end of Conscientious Objection Week, conscientious ...

MANY years ago (in the early nineties) I stood almost alone in England as an advocate of general military service. I advocated it because I knew that regular food and athletic life (the most vital ...

What is the role of conscience in medicine? Following the public debate last year over mandating insurance providers to cover contraception, some have argued that it is time to expunge the category of ...

When we think about harm, we typically think of physical or psychological suffering. But ethicists point out that we can also suffer “moral injury” when forced to do something at odds with our deeply ...

SEOUL, South Korea — Fifty-eight young men who had been imprisoned for refusing to serve in South Korea’s military were released from prisons across the country Friday, after a landmark court ruling ...

Amnesty International on Friday condemned Thailand’s charges against activist and conscientious objector Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, who is facing trial on September 9 for refusing military conscription ...

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Objectors to the law, including many doctors, consider the registry a “black list” meant to intimidate and eventually ...

The former Article 155, with which militarists presented pacificists, democrats, liberals and humanists in Turkey in the past, has been turned into Article 318. The essence is the same. Article 318 of ...

Now that Facebook's a big nasty corporation, it's not only attracted a lot of bad press, it's inspired more direct action. In the run-up to the IPO and its messy aftermath we've read a few ...

In 1897, amid growing resistance across the UK, angry residents took to the streets of Charlbury in a protest that turned so ...