Contents - Military Recruitment and Conscientious Objection:

A Thematic Global Survey

1. Introduction
2. Military Service and Recruitment
- 2.1 Types of military recruitment
- - Table 1: Introduction / abolition of obligatory military service
  - Table 2: Proportion of conscripts in armed forces 2004
- 2.2 The Process
- - 2.2.1 Registration and medical examination
  - 2.2.2 Selection procedure
  - 2.2.3 Call-up and induction
- 2.3 Military service in practice
- - 2.3.1 Duration and conditions
  - - Table 3: Changes in the duration of basic obligatory military service since 1990
    - Table 4: Some differential lengths of obligatory military service
  - 2.3.2 Documentation
  - 2.3.3 Reserve obligations in practice
- 2.4 Persons liable to recruitment
- - 2.4.1 Gender
  - 2.4.2 Age
  - - Table 5: Military service ages
  - 2.4.3 Citizenship and residence
  - 2.4.4 Exemptions and deferments
  - - Table 6: Grounds for Exemption or Deferment
  - 2.4.5 Peacetime and wartime
  - 2.4.6 Who actually serves?
  - - Table 7: Those performing obligatory military service as a proportion of the relevant age group
3. International Standards on Conscientious Objection
4. Conscientious Objection in Practice
- 4.1 Constitutional and legislative acknowledgment of conscientious objection
- - Table 8: Legal recognition of conscientious objection
- 4.2 Legal recognition does not define the existence of conscientious objection
- 4.3 Conscientious objection may develop at any time:
- - 4.3.1 At First Registration
  - 4.3.2 Before call up
  - - Table 9: Time/status limits for application for recognition as a conscientious objector
  - 4.3.3 During obligatory military service
  - 4.3.4 Among those who have joined the military voluntarily
  - 4.3.5 Among reservists
- 4.4 Information about conscientious objection provisions
- 4.5 Procedure
- - Table 10: Nature and composition of body which decides on recognition of conscientious objector status
  - Table 11: Procedure for recognition of conscientious objector status
  - Table 12: Grounds for rejection of application
  - Table 13: Appeal possibilities
- 4.6 What happens when the claim is (finally) rejected?
- - Table 14: Penalties for refusal of military service
- 4.7 Children
- 4.8 Women
- 4.9 Documentation for civil purposes
- 4.10 The situation in time of war
- 4.11 Selective objection
- 4.12 Conscientious Objectors as Refugees
5. ALTERNATIVE SERVICE
- 5.1 What is alternative service?
- 5.2 Administration of alternative service
- - Table 15: Administration of and arrangements for alternative service
- 5.3 Where can alternative service be performed? - Employing organisations and allocation to placements
- - Table 16: Nature of alternative service placements
- 5.4 How does the duration of alternative service compare with that of military service?
- - Table 17: Relative lengths of military and alternative service
- 5.5 Remuneration and other terms of service
- - 5.5.1 General
  - 5.5.2 Disciplinary proceedings
  - 5.5.3 Reserve obligations
6. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
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