Colombian Conscientious Objectors Celebrate Ruling: On 10 September 2010, Colombia’s Constitutional Court ruled that conscientious objectors may now be exempt from compulsory military service if their objections are found to be “deep, fixed and sincere.” The 111-page decision says that conscientious objection should be judged on a case-by-case basis and that current legislation prohibiting conscientious objection violates this inalienable right and must be reformed.
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For two weeks, Israel and the US turned their sights on Iran—and then, just like that, it stopped. A fortnight of phone calls with relatives,
After a visit to the house of Ashti Khan, the CPT Iraqi Kurdistan team hears the story of how a women’s march interrupted a bloody civil war.
The fallout from Israel’s war of aggression on Iran has left us at CPT worried about the safety of our teams in Iraqi Kurdistan and