Week of Global Mobilization for Peace in Ukraine

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.

International Day of Peace: Stop the war! Mobilise for peace!

   

JOINT PRESS RELEASE

International Day of Peace:

Stop the war! Mobilise for peace!

21 September 2023

Report on the anniversary of mobilization in Russia by GET LOST

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

Solidarity action with Mitja Jakonen in Athens, Greece

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

 

INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN:

PROTECTION AND ASYLUM FOR HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER OLGA KARATCH

#protection4olga

August 23rd 2023

 

Report on the situation of Belarusian refugees in Lithuania

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

Report on the situation of Belarusian Conscientious Objectors and draft evaders in Lithuania

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

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

    

JOINT PRESS RELEASE

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

17 August 2023

Ist Kriegsdienstverweigerung auch in der Ukraine gerechtfertigt?

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.

6th and 9th of August 1945: The dropping of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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:

EBCO interview with Yurii Sheliazhenko in Kyiv on 05/08/2023

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.

More:

JOINT PRESS RELEASE: Ukraine: Pacifism is not a crime in democratic states! Drop the charge against Yurii Sheliazhenko, #FreePeaceSpeech

   JOINT PRESS RELEASE

 

Ukraine: Pacifism is not a crime in democratic states!

Drop the charge against Yurii Sheliazhenko, #FreePeaceSpeech

4 August 2023

OPEN LETTER – URGENT: Protest about the harassment of Yurii Sheliazhenko and request for a meeting

European Bureau for Conscientious Objection

35 Van Elewyck street, 1050 Brussels, Belgium

OPEN LETTER – URGENT: Support of conscientious objector Mitja Jakonen

 

European Bureau for Conscientious Objection

35 Van Elewyck street, 1050 Brussels, Belgium

www.ebco-beoc.org / ebco@ebco-beoc.org / @ebcobeoc

 

Conscientious objectors stories (videos)

You can watch conscientious objectors narrating their stories by clicking on the yellow buttons either on the map above or in the list below. 

More conscientious objectors stories to be published soon!

So far, in alphabetic order:

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