Today, the ICJ, together with Amnesty International, Friends World Committee for Consultation (Quakers), the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, and War Resisters’ International, submitted an Amicus Curiae opinion to the Constitutional Court of Korea (Republic of Korea).
The interveners submit, among other things, that compulsion to engage in military service contrary to an individual’s conscience or religion or belief constitutes a violation of international human rights law and standards.
Korea-Amicus Opinion-Advocacy-legal submission-2014 (full text in pdf)