{"id":214878,"date":"2022-06-13T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=214878"},"modified":"2022-06-11T03:26:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T02:26:12","slug":"calls-for-protection-asylum-for-deserters-and-conscientious-objectors-from-russia-belarus-and-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/06\/calls-for-protection-asylum-for-deserters-and-conscientious-objectors-from-russia-belarus-and-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls for Protection\/Asylum for Deserters and Conscientious Objectors from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Broad civil society alliance calls for protection\/asylum for deserters and conscientious objectors from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

9 Jun 2022 – <\/em>In a joint appeal to\u00a0members of the European Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a broad civil society alliance from 20 countries has called on the European governments to grant protection and asylum to Russian and Belarusian as well as Ukrainian conscientious objectors and deserters. They need\u00a0immediate protection and asylum.<\/p>\n

According to international law, the servicemen and women fighting for Russia in this war are conducting an illegal operation. Moreover, it is possible that Belarus will participate in the war on Russia’s side. People refusing to participate in the war will most likely face serious prosecution, which qualifies them for protection under the EU Qualification\u00a0Directive. In most of the Member States the overwhelming majority of those affected have not yet received any guarantee of this protection.\u00a0With their appeal, the organizations demand that they be guaranteed protection and asylum.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is assumed that among the 300,000 people who have left Russia recently because of the war, there are many men who seek safety abroad to avoid being sent to the war. In the last few months roughly\u00a0 20,000 men from Belarus have left the country to avoid recruitment.\u00a0There are also Ukrainian conscientious objectors who do not want to fight in this war; around 3,000 men have claimed asylum in Moldavia alone.<\/p>\n

Each citizen, registered in Ukraine by February 24, 2022, is currently granted humanitarian residence in the European Union. This is encouraging. However, we should seriously consider what will happen to Ukrainian conscientious objectors when this provision expires.\u00a0European countries should take in these people fleeing the war effort without red tape and grant them a permanent right to stay.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The human right to conscientious objection has been recognized\u00a0inter alia<\/em>\u00a0by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the European Parliament. It must be guaranteed to everyone on all sides.\u00a0The European countries must ensure that the human right to conscientious objection is fully recognized.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Our aim is to ensure that conscientious objectors and deserters from the states involved in the war in Ukraine receive immediate protection and asylum,” reads the letter to the parliamentarians. The letter – which includes a suggested draft resolution – was initiated by the\u00a0International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), War Resisters\u2019 International (WRI), the European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO) and Connection e.V. (Germany), and is supported by\u00a0around 60 other\u00a0peace, human rights and refugee organisations from all over Europe.<\/p>\n

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The appeal can be found <\/strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Information on the legal situation for conscientious objection and desertion<\/strong>\u00a0in Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine can be found \u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Information on protection and asylum for conscientious objectors and deserters<\/strong>\u00a0can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Contact persons:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zaira Zafarana, International Fellowship of Reconciliation,\u00a0zaira.zafarana@ifor.org<\/a>,\u00a0www.ifor.org<\/a>\u00a0(English, Italian)<\/p>\n

Rudi Friedrich, Connection e.V., +49 69 8237 5534,\u00a0office@Connection-eV.org<\/a>,\u00a0www.Connection-eV.org<\/a>\u00a0(German, English)<\/p>\n

Semih Sapmaz, War Resisters\u2019 International,\u00a0semih@wri-irg.org<\/a>,\u00a0www.wri-irg.org<\/a>\u00a0(English, Turkish)<\/p>\n

Sam Biesemans, European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO), +32 477 268893,\u00a0ebco.brussels@skynet.be<\/a>,\u00a0www.ebco-beoc.org<\/a>\u00a0(French, Dutch, Italian, English)<\/p>\n

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Read the complete press release here in English, you are welcome to download it.<\/a><\/p>\n

Lea el comunicado de prensa completo aqu\u00ed en ingl\u00e9s, lo invitamos a descargarlo.<\/a><\/p>\n

L\u00e6s hele pressemeddelelsen her p\u00e5 engelsk, du er velkommen til at downloade den.<\/a><\/p>\n

Lisez le communiqu\u00e9 de presse complet ici en anglais, vous \u00eates invit\u00e9s \u00e0 le t\u00e9l\u00e9charger.<\/a><\/p>\n

Leggi il comunicato stampa completo qui in inglese, sei libero di scaricarlo.<\/a><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2022 IFOR, All rights reserved.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

9 Jun 2022 – In a joint appeal to\u00a0members of the European Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a broad civil society alliance from 20 countries has called on the European governments to grant protection and asylum to Russian and Belarusian as well as Ukrainian conscientious objectors and deserters. They need\u00a0immediate protection and asylum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":214879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[1817,2125,2134,1035,433,1268,2878,278,961,92,481],"class_list":["post-214878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-appeals","tag-anti-militarism","tag-belarus","tag-conscientious-objector","tag-eastern-europe","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-ifor","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-violent-conflict","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}