Assessing Conscientious Objection Around the World

From: Peacework | Date: December 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

It is difficult to give a panorama of the right to conscientious objection within the available space - the world is big, and situations are quite different. Conscientious objection in Western Europe for example means something very different from conscientious objection in Eritrea, or South Korea, or Israel, or Russia, or Latin America. And you all know that even within Latin America situations vary, and it is hard to compare Paraguay with its more than 100,000 conscientious objectors with the situation here in Colombia.

What I want to do is to give some general ideas and show some trends, ...

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