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For all these reasons, and due to his fear of being caught and tortured again, the complainant decided to hide and refused to perform his military service.

Indigenous populations were exempt from national military service, a fact which had helped to protect their cultures and communities.

[...] [...] International (CPTI) noted, as a first [...] [...]

While the first complainant was doing his compulsory military service, his parents fled to Saudi Arabia.

(e) In the interpretation of staff rule 5.3 (b) the period of special leave without pay for military service shall be counted for the purpose of establishing seniority.

The law stipulates that men between the ages of 18 and 35 and women between the ages of 18 and 27 may be [...] [...]

[...] its military service needs with volunteers, but all young men were registered for military service, and the law permitted the military to select them for obligatory service without any recognition of conscientious [...]

On a pilot basis, an employment scheme has been introduced to provide employment to one youth per family in the National Service for two years.

If it is to be assumed that the intention of the drafters was to declare compulsory military service a violation of the ―right to conscientious objection,‖ then one would legitimately challenge the rationale behind providing in another article for recognition of this ―violation‖ in some States as an exception to forced or compulsory labour.

French officials of the Organization are not exempt from military service or any other obligatory service in France.

The Committee’s assessment of possible limitations to the freedom to manifest one’s beliefs or religion will apply to other potential cases of conscientious objection, but never to cases of conscientious objection to performing compulsory military service.

He did not employ any forced laborers, who were frequently used in German industry to replace the men who had been drafted for military service at that time.

These authorities shall, on the request of the Organization and in case of a call-up for national service applicable to other officials of French nationality, grant such temporary deferments as may be necessary to avoid the interruption of essential work.

(b) Any requests to Governments which have not acceded to the Convention to defer or exempt staff members from military service by reason of their employment with the United Nations shall be made by the Secretary-General and not by the staff member concerned.

Persons who have not completed their primary education; who have been deprived of legal capacity; who have not performed compulsory military service; who are banned from public service; who have been sentenced to a prison term totaling one year or more excluding involuntary offences, or to a long imprisonment; those who have been convicted of  dishonorable offences, such as embezzlement, corruption, bribery, theft, fraud, forgery, breach of trust, or fraudulent bankruptcy; and persons convicted of smuggling, conspiracy in official bidding or purchasing; of offences related to the disclosure of state secrets; of involvement in acts of terrorism, or incitement and encouragement of such activities, shall not be elected as a  deputy even if they have been granted amnesty.

The Committee recalls the conventional jurisdiction of military justice, which should be confined to crimes committed in the context of military service, and recommends that the State party review its legislation in order to exclude offences by civilians, including those that contravene legislation on military weapons and sidearms, armed robbery and all related offences, from the jurisdiction of military justice.

Kadima’s decision to leave the coalition emerged after disagreements on the renewal of a law regarding the military service of the Jewish Haredi community.

While the Pacific Association for Radiation Survivors continues to advocate for the inclusion of Guam claimants as downwinders under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act of Congress, the island’s claimants have been recognized only within the compensation category of on-site participants, a classification for which only those connected with military service on the island qualify, not the total exposed population.

The conditions for the appointment of a deputy head of a department are that the appointee must have a university degree and must have worked in the public sector for at least 10 years including the period of military service.

According to the law, military service is compulsory for Romanian citizens, males, who reached the age of 20, except in case of war or upon request, during peacetime, when they may be recruited after the age of 18.