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 ...

COMMENTARY: If there is an area of the public square in which freedom of conscience should be robustly granted and reluctantly curtailed, health care is it. Freedom of conscience is key to the ...

Marking Conscientious Objection Day, pacifists staged a protest in front of a military site in Istanbul. On Saturday (16 May), pacifists gathered in front of the military leisure centre in Harbiye, ...

This document serves to provide a comprehensive, evidence-based framework to guide the development, reform, and implementation of health laws, regulations, and public policies related to conscientious ...

"I weighed my responsibility to help preserve my community in war-time; I considered in what manner I might effectively rationalize killing; I questioned whether I could subordinate myself to the ...

Erkan Ersoz and Ersan Ugur Gor, two conscientious objectors from Turkeys War Resisters Association, urge for the acquittal of arrested objector Mehmet Tarhan, whose request for release was denied ...

A weathered roadside sign of M-77 is all that's left marking the site of Camp Germfask — a camp used during World War II to stow away conscientious objectors who were deemed troublemakers. Visitors to ...

Mr. Moore Gerety is a freelance reporter and audio producer. It was a book of Buddhist parables that put Michael Rasmussen over the edge. In March 2017, Mr. Rasmussen was living near a naval base in ...