Inter­na­tio­nale Arbeit für Kriegs­dienst­ver­wei­gerer und Deser­teure

Israel: Feminist Counseling Network New Profile

Uploaded 12.09.2023

(06.09.2023) My name is Or and I have been New Profile’s Counseling Network co-coordinator for the past 4 years. New Profile is a feminist anti-militarist movement that has been active in Israel since 1998. I am writing this as a part of the. #ObjectWarCampaign, organized by Connection e.V., the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, the European Office for Conscientious Objection and War Resisters’ International. The #ObjectWarCampaign is a very important campaign that calls European countries to acknowledge the right to asylum of people that ran away from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine as an act of refusing to take part in the war, to kill or be killed.

Conference: Conscientious Objection in Asia, 18th-20th November, Seoul, South Korea

Uploaded 06.09.2023

(07.09.2023) We are pleased to announce the conference “Conscientious Objection in Asia”, which will be held on 18th to 20th November in Seoul, South Korea. The event will gather conscientious objectors (COs) and campaigners of conscientious objection (CO) from across Asia to discuss the problems COs are facing today and how to counter these problems. The event is organised by World Without War in cooperation with Connection e.V. and War Resisters’ International.

Folder updated for the Anti-war Day

Deserters and objectors from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine need our support

Uploaded 31.08.2023

(01.09.2023) We have updated and redesigned our folder on the campaign for deserters and conscientious objectors from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine for further distribution. In it, we present the work for deserters and conscientious objectors from these countries as of September 2023. In addition, we provide background information on conscientious objection and desertion, as well as conscientious objection and asylum. Some pictures are added and logos of some of the organisations supporting the #ObjectWarCampaign. (8 pages)

The folder can be viewed at https://en.Connection-eV.org/pdfs/flyer-get-out2023-2-en.pdf. A print template can be provided.

Onkruit never dies - Onkruit vergaat niet

Video about the anti-militarist actions in the 1970s and 1980s in the Netherlands

Uploaded 28.08.2023

(14.08.2023) In the 1970s and 1980s, the anti-militarist action group Onkruit (with a t) was very active with direct actions against army, conscription and the arms industry. The name ‘Onkruit’ refers to No Gunpowder (Kruit in Dutch). Under the name ‘Onkruit does not perish’, the activists of that time have resumed their struggle. They made a movie.

The film was made by independent filmmakers Huib Schoonhoven and Karen Kuiper, with the cooperation of freelance journalists Jacqueline Maris and Marnix Koolhaas. (37:10 Dutch with English subtitles)