European Bureau for Conscientious Objection

CONSCIENCE AND PEACE TAX INTERNATIONAL

ORAL STATEMENT

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL,  53^nd SESSION

ITEM 4:  INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE WITH THE SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON  BELARUS

5^th July, 2023

Delivered by Derek BRETT                                     Contact:

                                                                                    Derek BRETT

                                                                                    Main Representative to the UN, Geneva

URGENT APPEAL

To:      Lithuanian Immigration authorities

E-mail: info@migracija.gov.lt

Subject: Ivan STRASHKEVICH case, gim 1993-09-01, urgent release

4 July 2023

JOINT PRESS RELEASE

Another blatant human rights violation by Russia:

labelling the Movement of Conscientious Objectors as “Foreign Agent”

30 June 2023

26/06/2023

Dear Partners,

We write with an urgent update regarding our organisation. As of last Friday, June 23rd, the Movement of Conscientious Objectors has been officially labeled as a "foreign agent" in the Russian Federation.

This action, while a demonstration of the effectiveness of our work, is fundamentally a discriminatory application of law that contradicts universally accepted human rights and freedoms.

European               War

Bureau for             Resisters'

Conscientious        International

Objection

35 Van Elewyck street, 1050 Brussels, Belgium                      5 Caledonian Road, London, N1 9DX, Britain

Join the working group No.9 on the right to conscientious objection during the Russian war in Ukraine!

“I do not know how many records were issued against me”

JOINT PRESS RELEASE

Supreme Court of Ukraine releases a prisoner of conscience: conscientious objector Vitaly Alekseenko

EBCO PRESS RELEASE

PRESS RELEASE

May 15^th, International Conscientious Objection Day:

Even more crucial to protect this human right in wartime

The Brussels Activist Peace Forum was hosted by Clare Daly MEP & Mick Wallace MEP on May 13^th 2023.

Official statement by Clare Daly and Mick Wallace on the outcome of the Brussels Activist Peace Forum, May 13, 2023:

Situation with Evasion from Service in Belarusian Army-2022 / 2023 and children militarization in Belarus.

Context:

UKRAINE

Anti-War Action and Consequences Suffered by Protesters

EBCO PRESS RELEASE

EBCO Annual Report 2022/23 on Conscientious Objection to Military Service in Europe: Focus on the courageous conscientious objectors and pacifists in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus