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The Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations (UCCRO) and Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal met on Oct. 19 to discuss alternatives to military service for conscientious objectors.
The Peace Pledge Union urged the new Defence Secretary to make a clean break with his predecessor's enthusiastic support for arms companies, high military spending and the provision of military training to tyrannies such as Saudi Arabia.
Following the denial of political asylum by the Lithuanian authorities for the Belarusian peace builder and human rights defender Olga Karatch (Volha
IVANO-FRANKIVSK, Ukraine — On just the fifth day of the war, Mykhailo Yavorsky decided to pay a visit to a local military enlistment office, not to enlist in the battle against the invading Russian forces but to explain why he could not. “Please excuse me, I cannot fight, I will not shoot,” Yavorsky, 40, said he told the officers last year. “I can help you with something else.” Yavorsky said he wanted to support Ukraine but only in accordance with “biblical principles.” His pleas fell on deaf ea
Our Home, a Belarusian human rights NGO operating in Lithuania, will be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, the organis...