The Malatya Military Court claimed that decisions of the ECHR regarding conscientious objection could also be applied to domestic law in the scope of Article 90 of the Constitution. This landmark ...

Amnesty International on Friday condemned Thailand’s charges against activist and conscientious objector Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, who is facing trial on September 9 for refusing military conscription ...

This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. Joy Metzler had expected to still be ...

Chile’s new constitutional text includes guarantees for a series of human rights, including the rights to equality, health, and education. But the text also includes an interpretation of the freedom ...

Moral injury can occur when someone must act against their values -- but also when they cannot act in line with their values. Fly View Productions/E+ via Getty Images When we think about harm, we ...

Conscientious objector Savda was arrested and taken to prison upon the approval of a five-month prison sentence on charges of "alienating the public from military service". Amnesty International ...

"Cowardice asks the question—'Is it safe?' But conscience asks the question—'Is it right?'" —Martin Luther King Jr. Recent events have highlighted an old but now urgent ethical question: Can lawyers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHICAGO – In the desert, he realized Humvees don’t uphold the Constitution: People do. Twenty years later, Iraq War veteran Aaron ...

The Supreme Court of Korea has ruled that a South Korean man must serve one year and six months in prison after he refused the country’s mandatory military service. He had argued he was a ...

(RNS) — Seymur Mammadov, 22, was recently sentenced to nine months in prison after objecting to military service. (RNS) — Seymur Mammadov, a 22-year-old Jehovah’s Witness, was recently sentenced to ...

A quiet academic debate over a physician's right to refuse specific healthcare services on the basis of moral or ethical objections or religious beliefs is spilling over into the HIV arena in some ...