European Bureau for Conscientious Objection

Film about German Deserter of WWII

The German filmmaker Annette Ortlieb produced a documentary about Ludwig Baumann, German deserter of WWII. In cooperation with EBCO the premiere of this film will take place in Bremen on 19 November 2023.

THE LOVE OF LIFE

EBCO PRESS RELEASE

EBCO General Assembly and parallel action in Nicosia, Cyprus

Brussels, 1 November 2023

Solidarity actions in Berlin in which members of DFG-VK played major role:

11/10/2023

The horrific attacks on civilians in Israel were deplorable and we condemn Hamas’ terrorist attack in strongest terms. Hamas must immediately release the Israeli hostages held in the Gaza strip, ensure their safety and cease hostilities for the sake of the Israeli and Palestinian people.

We are also deeply worried about the scale of the military retaliation of Israel in the Gaza strip and the blockade of the territory with no access to electricity, food or water. The Gazan population must not pay the price for the violence unleashed by Hamas.

The International Peace Bureau (IPB) calls the civil society organizations in all countries to join a Week of Global Mobilization for Peace in Ukraine (WGMPU) from Saturday 30th September to Sunday –  8th October 2023. The common goal is to call an immediate ceasefire and peace negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.

It is part of the follow up action after the International Peace Summit in Vienna.

JOINT PRESS RELEASE

International Day of Peace:

Stop the war! Mobilise for peace!

21 September 2023

A year ago, on September 21, Vladimir Putin signed a decree on “partial mobilization”.
The very next day, mobilization offices began to open all over Russia, sometimes
in most unexpected places like the Roman Viktyuk’s theater. Immediately,
people began to receive military call-up sheets that were handed in person, left
in doorframes or mailboxes, given to random people on the street. In St. Petersburg,
military recruitment officers would stand in the entrances of apartment
buildings to hand call-up papers to passing residents. In Vladivostok recruitment

Photos from the solidarity action with Mitja Jakonen and Aseistakieltäytyjäliitto AKL in front of the Finnish Embassy in Athens! 

INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN:

PROTECTION AND ASYLUM FOR HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER OLGA KARATCH

#protection4olga

August 23^rd 2023

International Centre for civil initiatives “Our House” (Nash Dom), Belarus & Lithuania

With the support of:

International Fellowship of Reconciliation – Austria

European Bureau for Conscientious Objection

Federation for Social Defence, Germany

International Centre for civil initiatives “Our House” (Nash Dom), Belarus & Lithuania

With support of:

International Fellowship of Reconciliation – Austria

European Bureau for Conscientious Objection

Federation for Social Defence, Germany

JOINT PRESS RELEASE

Ukraine: Release peace activist Yurii Sheliazhenko and drop all charges against him

17 August 2023

Stand:14.08.2023, 06:57 Uhr

Von: Pitt von Bebenburg

„Die Anschuldigungen sind eindeutig eine Schikane.“ Alexia Tsouni (rechts) mit dem von den Behörden angeklagten Jurij Seljaschenko in Kiew. © privat

In Kriegszeiten ist sie ein konkreter Beitrag zum Frieden, sagt die Präsidentin des Europäischen Büros für Kriegsdienstverweigerung.

Mural photographed in Berlin by Friedhelm Schneider, former EBCO President.

On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The aerial bombings together killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.

Article by Gerardo Femina:

Interview with Yurii Sheliazhenko, Executive Secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, by Alexia Tsouni, President of the European Bureau for Conscientious Objection, during her human rights monitoring mission in Kyiv, Ukraine, on August 5th 2023.

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