In the present report, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights analyses developments since 2017, promising practices and remaining challenges concerning conscientious objection to military service.

Summary The report builds upon submissions received from stakeholders and on the analytical report submitted by OHCHR to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-fifth session in 2017 ( A/HRC/35/4 ). It...

Summary The Human Rights Council, in its resolution 20/2 , requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to prepare, in consultation with all States, relevant...

The right to conscientious objection to military service is based on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and jurisprudence of the Human Rights Committee. This publication...

22 November 2002 A United Nations panel of experts will meet in Geneva from 25 to 29 November to examine allegations of arbitrary detention from around the world. The Working Group on Arbitrary...

19.07.02 Report Contains a Wealth of Information on the Human Rights Situation in the country, Chairperson Says The Human Rights Committee this morning concluded its consideration of the initial...

Incitement to hatred, safety of journalists, freedom of the press, conscientious objection to military service, conscientious objectors, free speech, freedom of the media