Thailand: Court to rule in first criminal case on conscientious objection to military service
On July 20, the Samut Prakan District Court will deliver its verdict in the case of Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, Thailand’s first publicly declared conscientious objector to stand trial for refusing military conscription. If convicted under the 1954 Military Service Act, he will face up to three...
BEYOND THE JOG: WHAT THE AFRICA FORWARD SUMMIT ACTUALLY SAID ABOUT PEACE, POWER AND DISARMAMENT
This article is written by Sahlim Charles, a Council Member at the International Peace Bureau and enthusiastic about Disarmament and Militarization discourse. Sahlim is also the Founder and Executive Director of Re-Imagining New Communities. I took time to analyze the stakes at the Africa Forward...
Solidarity with Turkish Anti-War and Human Rights Activists
9 July 2026 | By: Stop Rearm Europe (SRE) *The International Peace Bureau is a member of the SRE. We stand in solidarity with the activists, journalists, lawyers, and human rights defenders being detained and silenced across Türkiye ahead of the 36th NATO Summit, taking place in Ankara on July 6th...
Toward Dialogue and Survival in a Perilous Time
Common security lessons for the US and Russia in a world without arms control. *By Joseph Gerson, Jul 05, 2026, Common Dreams The following article was initially written at the request of Oleg Bodrov, a Russian physicist with commitments to peace and environmental sustainability and...
Torture, detention, and denial of alternative service: EBCO calls on Ukraine to uphold the right to conscientious objection
English | Ukrainian. Please see the Ukrainian version below. Press release by European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO) The European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO) condemns the torture and death in military custody of Ukrainian conscientious objector Dmytro Koval and calls on...
