F. Draft, military service and conscientious objection

But she was the best and most conscientious of stepmothers, and back I had to go to my room.

The passage of entity laws on conscientious objections and broadcasting awaited the prior adoption of the relevant State legislation.

(20) The Committee is concerned that the State party does not recognize the right to conscientious objection to compulsory military service (art.

(b) The release in April 2005 of four Jehovah's Witnesses who had made conscientious objections to undertaking military service

The State party should ensure that persons liable for military service may claim the status of conscientious objector and perform alternative service that is not of a punitive character.

(a) Analytical report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on best practices in relation to conscientious objection to military service (resolution 2004 35, para. 5)

In 20 of cases the complaints procedure relates to conduct and perception factors, such as aggression, sexual harassment or moral objections to doing certain tasks.

The State party should respect the right to conscientious objection to military service and establish, if it so wishes, an alternative civil service of a non punitive nature.

In those decisions, the Committee had held that quot the refusal to pay taxes on grounds of conscientious objection clearly falls outside the scope of protection quot of article 18 of the Covenant.

(a) Analytical report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on best practices in relation to conscientious objection to military service (resolution 2004 35, para. 5)

(19) The Committee regrets that no response was provided by the delegation to the question whether Yemen law recognizes a right to conscientious objection to military service (art.

The Special Rapporteur is concerned about the manner in which applications for avoidance of military duty based on conscientious objector status are currently being adjudicated in the Republic of Croatia.

The State party should fully recognize the right to conscientious objection in times of compulsory military service and should establish an alternative form of service, the terms of which should be non discriminatory (Covenant, arts. 18 and 26).

It should provide further information on the use of the conscientious objection clause by doctors, and, so far as possible, on the number of illegal abortions that take place in Poland.

Chinese financial assistance is tied to the extraction of natural resources, particularly oil and minerals. Environmentalists worry that without a more conscientious green component to Chinese lending, unchecked exploitation could lead to resource depletion.

(14) The Committee regrets that the right to conscientious objection is acknowledged only in peacetime, and that the civilian alternative to military service is punitively long.

I am even more, more, more disappointed!

The author argues, however, that this law was created for conscientious objections to lawful obligations, arising from military service, not for objections to obligations that are illegally imposed and violate international law.

A little higher. A little higher.

She is more... more mature.

More wars, more treasure.

More than... more than even you.

(22) The Committee notes that, according to the information supplied by the State party, compulsory military service is a fallback applicable only when not enough professional soldiers can be recruited, while at the same time the State party does not recognize the right to conscientious objection.

(11) The Committee takes note of the information provided by the delegation whereby Syria does not recognize the right to conscientious objection to military service, but that it permits some of those who do not wish to perform such service to pay a certain sum in order not to do so (art. 18).

Will we make a society that is more boring and more uniform, or more robust and more versatile?

While he claims to have deserted in 1994 on humanitarian grounds as a conscientious objector, consciously exposing himself to the risk of very severe punishment, his humanitarian concerns seem totally at odds with his violent criminal conduct on arrival in France and subsequently.

By considering that the author should have applied for alternative service under the Conscientious Objection Act, the Supreme Court limited the author apos s objections with regard to the illegal character of the military service to a matter of conscience.

Each day the crowd got bigger noisier, greedier.

The more you snitched, the more you ate.

So we got looser and looser.

It's more painful, more frightening.

Maybe more, maybe a little longer.

The more you give, the more they take.

More special people, more special places.

There are more pictures. There are more photographers.

The more you give, the more you get.

They got healthier. I made more money.

And the more we learn, the more that was reinforced.

But I'll buy again and again!

It's more than that. Much more.

It is also concerned at the unavailability of abortion in practice even when the law permits it, for example in cases of pregnancy resulting from rape, and by the lack of information on the use of the conscientious objection clause by medical practitioners who refuse to carry out legal abortions.

Then, and only then, can we focus on saving more lakes, more rivers and more elephants.

It is a more hopeful, it is a more human, and is a more useful way of understanding our environment.

But we need much more privacy and much more freedom and much more autonomy at work.