Counselling Conscientious Objectors
We provide support to individuals who wish to refuse military service, both in Germany and particularly in the South Caucasus. There, we assist young people who are fleeing the war in Ukraine through the Caucasus. We offer regular online consultations, a hotline, and a Telegram channel on-site, and we assist in compiling documents for potential visa applications or planning onward travel.
We have joined the campaign advocating for the right to asylum for conscientious objectors.
In Germany, we have launched a hotline for affected individuals, relatives, and friends of conscientious objectors:
Hotline: Tel. +49(0)30 2082284 or via
Email: [email protected]
Right of Asylum
Russian conscientious objectors are usually rejected in asylum procedures in the EU, while conscientious objectors in Ukraine and Russia are sentenced to long prison terms. Over 100 organizations from more than 20 countries are showing their solidarity and standing up for these people. On the occasion of the war in Ukraine, they are calling for protection and asylum for conscientious objectors and deserters from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. The human right to conscientious objection must also apply in times of war.
Link to the campaign:
Caucasus Conscientious Objectors Network
– Why should I fight in another country?
– Why am I fighting against people who are related to my family?
– Why do we have to shoot at civilians?
If you refuse to join the army or have left it, we will support you with
legal advice about your rights as a conscientious objector
about options for onward travel to other safe countries
about your rights as an asylum seeker in the EU
Financial support for notary fees, doctors and lawyers
Contacts to the European Network for Conscientious Objectors
We support people who evade recruitment and mobilization and leave the army in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. We also support people in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan who have problems in the army or want to do alternative service.
We work with the European Bureau for Conscientious Objectors (EBCO) and organizations working for human rights in the UN system.
More information on our Telegram channel:
Caucasus Conscientious Objectors Network
– Why should I fight in another country?
– Why am I fighting against people who are related to my family?
– Why do we have to shoot at civilians?
If you refuse to join the army or have left it, we will support you with
legal advice about your rights as a conscientious objector
about options for onward travel to other safe countries
about your rights as an asylum seeker in the EU
Financial support for notary fees, doctors and lawyers
Contacts to the European Network for Conscientious Objectors
We support people who evade recruitment and mobilization and leave the army in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. We also support people in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan who have problems in the army or want to do alternative service.
We work with the European Bureau for Conscientious Objectors (EBCO) and organizations working for human rights in the UN system.
More information on our Telegram channel:
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Solidarity with conscientious objectors
How far does our solidarity with people who are against the war in Ukraine go?
We can write to our MPs and demand the right to asylum. We can donate money to organisations that support conscientious objectors. We can make contact with people who have fled from this war and support them here in our country. We can take part in demonstrations in favour of peace.
But we can also be prepared to take risks ourselves in order to actively support these people. We can accompany them when they cross the borders of Europe, even if this means we may be accused of being ‘escape helpers’ or ‘smugglers’. We can grant them ‘church asylum’ and enable them to stay in Germany and not be deported to another country.
And we can refuse to do military service ourselves, whether as reservists, soldiers or young people who are to be called up.
Let us refuse wars in the world and serve peace!
Please support our work for conscencious objectors on the page of donate.