European Bureau for Conscientious Objection

Draft program:

Friday 21 April 2023:

Morning-Afternoon: Lobbying meetings.

18:00-20:00: Antimilitarist tour in Athens city centre, on the anniversary of the launch of the Greek military dictatorship (21 April 1967).

20:00: Dinner in Exarchia, where the students launched their non-violent revolution against the junta at the Law Faculty of the University of Athens and at the National Technical University of Athens in 1973.

Saturday 22 April 2023:

09:30-13:30: EBCO General Assembly

13:30: Lunch

ALEXIA TSOUNI & MAURICE MONTET, BUREAU EUROPÉEN DE L'OBJECTION DE CONSCIENCE.

Les opposants à la guerre russo-ukrainienne, les réfugiés, les déserteurs.

Emission SI VIS PACEM de l'Union Pacifiste. Radio libertaire 9 mars 2023. Animation Bernard Baissat

3 March 2023        Index: EUR 25/6508/2023

GREECE: GIVE THOMAS KATSAROS a fair examination of his grounds for conscientious objection under an amended legislative framework in line with international law and standards

EBCO PRESS RELEASE

EBCO contribution in the European Parliament public hearing on conscientious objection as a human right and in particular, Russian conscientious objectors

Brussels, 2 March 2023

EBCO PRESS RELEASE

EBCO in the European Parliament public hearing on conscientious objection as a human right and in particular, Russian conscientious objectors

Brussels, 1 March 2023

EBCO PRESS RELEASE

Ukraine: Vitaly Alkeseenko is a prisoner of conscience and should be released immediately and unconditionally

Brussels, 27 February 2023

Brussels, 24 February 2023

Joint Press Release: International organisations call for actions at the Ukrainian and Russian embassies to protest against the forced mobilisation and to support conscientious objectors and deserters

22 February 2023

Joint Press Release

2/2/2023

International Organizations Call For Actions at the Belarusian Embassies on the 20^th of February to Protest Against a Possible Entry into the War in Ukraine by Belarus, and to Support Conscientious Objectors and Deserters.

JOINT PRESS RELEASE

18 January 2023

On the occasion of the International Day of Peace, 21st September, Connection e.V., the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, the European Bureau for Conscientious Objection and War Resisters' International are calling for a signature campaign for deserters and conscientious objectors from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

The European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO) visited Helsinki and co-organised a number of events with its member organisation in Finland, the Union of Conscientious Objectors (Aseistakieltäytyjäliitto - AKL), from 2^nd to 6^th September 2022.

In the press conference on Monday 5 September in Helsinki Central Library Oodi, the European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO) and the Union of Conscientious Objectors (AKL) will give the floor to conscientious objectors from the war of aggression launched by Russia against Ukraine, and call on European governments to provide human rights protection and asylum to all of them. Is there war resistance in Russia?

WHAT: Meeting for the press and decision-makers by the European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO) and The Union of Conscientious Objectors (AKL) in Helsinki Central Library Oodi and as a stream on September 5 10-11am.