Conscientious Objection to Military Service

A/HRC/RES/51/6View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2022.

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4 versions · 2012–2022

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2022	A/HRC/RES/51/6	Conscientious objection to military service	645	49%Compare
2017	A/HRC/RES/36/18	Conscientious objection to military service	366	23%Compare
2013	A/HRC/RES/24/17	Conscientious objection to military service	1,251	24%Compare
2012	A/HRC/RES/20/2	Conscientious objection to military service	373	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Compulsory Military Service Conscientious Objectors Human Rights International Law Report Preparation

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6 operative paragraphs

Takes notes of the report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on approaches and challenges with regard to application procedures for obtaining the status of conscientious objector to military service in accordance with human rights standards, presented to the Human Rights Council at its forty-first session, pursuant to resolution 36/18,² and of the analytical report on conscientious objection to military service presented by the Office of the High Commissioner to the Council at its fiftieth session, pursuant to resolution 20/2;³

²A/HRC/41/23.

³A/HRC/50/43.

Encourages States to consider implementing the recommendations of the above-mentioned reports, where needed, in their efforts to bring or improve national laws, policies and practices, including with regard to application procedures, alternative service and non-discrimination of any kind, in line with States’ obligations under international human rights law and applicable international human rights standards;

Notes with appreciation the progress and long-standing efforts made in several States to take new or additional steps to recognize the right to conscientious objection to military service in law, policy and practice, and expresses its concern at information on human rights violations with regard to conscientious objection to military service, including those involving arbitrary detention and other forms of punishment, including repeated punishment;

Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to organize a half-day intersessional workshop, in a hybrid format and fully accessible to persons with disabilities, on good practices and recent developments in the implementation of the right to conscientious objection to military service in law and in practice, to inform the preparation of a report, in consultation with all States and relevant intergovernmental organizations, United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, the special procedures of the Human Rights Council, the treaty bodies, national human rights institutions and non-governmental organizations, with recommendations on legal and policy frameworks to uphold human rights in the context of conscientious objection to military service in accordance with States’ obligations under international human rights law and applicable international human rights standards, and to present the report, in an accessible and readable format, to the Council at its fifty-sixth session;

Invites States to consider including in their national reports, to be submitted to the universal periodic review mechanism and to United Nations human rights treaty bodies, as appropriate, information on domestic provisions related to the right to conscientious objection to military service;

Decides to continue consideration of this matter under the same agenda item in accordance with its annual programme of work.

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