Health-care professionals aren’t pacifists refusing conscription into the military. They freely choose health-care careers – ...

Conscientious objection, for its part, predates the Revolutionary War, as many early settlers, particularly in colonies like Pennsylvania, were Quakers, ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The concept of conscientious objection dates back centuries and is rooted in the principle that individuals should not be forced to act against their deeply held moral or ...

Under the national rules, abortion is permitted within the first 90 days of a pregnancy, or later if there are risks to the ...

Almost a third of Italians believe the country will be directly involved in a war within five years, but only 16% of those of ...

Conscientious objector Şendoğan Yazıcı has been sentenced to five months and 18 days in prison for allegedly "inciting disobedience to the law" under Article 217 of the Turkish Penal Code. The ...

Josh Stieber is on a walking and bicycling tour across the United States, giving away nearly $30,000 in combat pay he earned in Iraq and promoting peace. The war veteran ...

Dozens of South Korean conscientious objectors were released from jail on parole on Friday after a landmark court decision that conscience is a valid reason to refuse mandatory military service.

The demonstration in Berlin against the Zelensky regime in Ukraine. On January 16, the German Federal Court of Justice ruled in a landmark decision that the extradition of a conscientious objector ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A 20-year-old Marine reservist seeking to be discharged as a conscientious objector has given himself a second way out -- he's told military leaders he's gay. "I believe that as a ...

He was a key figure in the movement of conscientious objection to service in the apartheid military at a time when such a stance was far from easy. Born in Pretoria on 12 March 1956, ...