International Law

Human Rights Committee
Ninety-eighth session
8 to 26 March 2010

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Communications Nos. 1593 to 1603/2007

Submitted by:
Messrs. Eu-min Jung, Tae-Yang Oh, Chang-Geun Yeom, Dong-hyuk Nah, Ho-Gun Yu, Chi-yun Lim, Choi Jin, Tae-hoon Lim, Sung-hwan Lim, Jae-sung Lim, and Dong-ju Goh.
(represented by counsel Jea-Chang Oh of Haemaru Law Offices)
The authors

The Republic of Korea

15 May 2007 (initial submissions)

Special Rapporteur’s rule 97 decision, transmitted to the State party on 5 October 2007
(not issued in document form)

23 March 2010

A /HRC/13/2/Add.1

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26. NATIONAL SERVICE, UNDER-AGE MILITARY CONSCRIPTION, AND TORTURE (Recommendations 62-63; 67-71) Rejected:

(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 24 February 2010
at the 1077th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)

The Committee of Ministers, under the terms of Article 15.b of the Statute of the Council of Europe,

Considering that the aim of the Council of Europe is to achieve a greater unity between its member states, inter alia, by promoting the adoption of common rules;

On Tuesday, 9 February 2010, German total objector Fabian Schulz had to face trial a third time for his refusal to do substitute service.

Please join the War Resisters League in calling for a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawl in Haiti, an end to the militarization of aid, and a focus on the self-determination of the Haitian people.

"It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail." -Abraham Maslow

END PROSECUTION OF ALBIN KURTI

27 January 2010

To whom it may concern

On 10 February 2007, police of UN Mission in Kosovo opened fire with rubber and plastic bullets on an unarmed demonstration in Prishtina killing two people. The police concerned have since returned to their country, Rumania, without being held accountable for their action. Now EULEX – the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo – has re-opened proceedings against Albin Kurti, the spokesperson of the movement Vetëvendosje which organised the demonstration.

A/HRC/13/2

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II. CONCLUSIONS AND/OR RECOMMENDATIONS

79. In the course of the discussion, the following recommendations were made to Eritrea. These recommendations will be examined by Eritrea, which will provide responses in due time. The response of Eritrea to these recommendations will be included in the outcome report to be adopted by the Human Rights Council at its thirteenth session:

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Joint statement of European Bureau for Conscientious Objection, Quaker
United Nations Office, Geneva, and War Resisters' International on
the ECtHR Third section judgement Bayatyan v. Armenia (Application no.

THIRD SECTION

CASE OF BAYATYAN v. ARMENIA

(Application no. 23459/03)

JUDGMENT

STRASBOURG

27 October 2009

This judgment will become final in the circumstances set out in Article 44 § 2 of the Convention. It may be subject to editorial revision.

In the case of Bayatyan v. Armenia,

The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of:

Josep Casadevall, President,
Elisabet Fura,
Corneliu Bîrsan,
Boštjan M. Zupančič,
Alvina Gyulumyan,
Egbert Myjer,
Ann Power, judges,
and Stanley Naismith, Deputy Section Registrar,

Saturday, October 17th and Sunday, October 18th 2009:
International working conference “No to war - No to NATO”

Colombia does not recognise the right to conscientious objection. Conscientious
objectors live with the permanent risk of recruitment by the Armed
Forces of Colombia, in one of the frequent batidas,
checkpoints set up by the military on busy streets or places, to
check the papers of young people at recruitment age. In addition,
they face further violations of their human rights.

A/HRC/10/29
Report of the Human Rights Council on its tenth session

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(a) Views expressed by the State under review on the recommendations and/or conclusions as well as on its voluntary commitments and on the outcome

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