Conscience and Peace Tax International (CPTI)

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What is CPTI?

CPTI aims to obtain recognition of the right to conscientious objection to paying for armaments and war preparation and war conduct through taxes.

CPTI works through international movements and through international institutions such as the United Nations and the European Union.

CPTI is a non-governmental organization (NGO) in special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations.

While CPTI is not an umbrella organization of all War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Campaigns (WTR-PTCs), it complements the work of the many national and regional campaigns.

There Are Movements Around the World:

Australia, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America.

 
Report on the 12th International Conference, held 5–7 September 2008 in Manchester, United Kingdom, now available (PDF, 4.9 MB).

13^th International Conference
on War Tax Resistance
and Peace Tax Campaigns

The 13^th International Conference on War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Campaigns (new window) will take place Friday, July 2nd through Sunday, July 4th, 2010, at Skiringssal Folke­høyskole (Skiringssal College) in Sandefjord, Norway. The Conference will be hosted by Skattebetalare för fred (Taxpayers for Peace [Sweden]) and The Peace Tax Alliance (Norway). The International Conference is a biennial event which draws together national war tax resistance and peace tax campaigns from 16 different countries.

CPTI needs your financial support to continue this important work. Please send your contribution today.

Worthy of Special Note:

Historic Decision—Republic of Korea

United Nations Human Rights Committee: Recognising conscientious objection to military service as a protected manifestation of religion or belief under Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (31 January 2007)

Briefing Paper on Conscientious Objection Quaker United Nations Office, February 2007 [pdf version]

Military Recruitment and Conscientious Objection: A Thematic Global Survey, by Derek Brett

Recent Additions to This Web Site:

Constitutional Appeal Against the Use of Taxes for Armament and the Military in Germany

• Complaint filed with the German Constitutional Court by Netzwerk Friedenssteuer (Peace Tax Network, Germany) on 16 February 2009.

2009 Canadian Conscientious Objection Act

• House of Commons Private Members' Public Bill C-390, introduced by Mr. Bill Siksay, 15 May 2009.

U.S. Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act of 2009

• H.R. 2085, introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. John Lewis, 23 April 2009.

CPTI Documents Submitted to the UN Since 2001:

• CPTI Submission to the 96th Session of the Human Rights Committee: July 2009: Conscientious Objection to Military Service: Azerbaijan, Chad, Netherlands, United Republic of Tanzania
• CPTI Submissions to the 6^th Session of the UPR Working Group, December 2009: Cyprus and Eritrea
• CPTI Submission to the 5^th Session of the UPR Working Group, April 2009: Chile
• Oral Statements by CPTI: Adoption of UPR Reports on Colombia, Israel, Turkmenistan—Human Rights Council, 19 & 20 March 2009
• Joint Statement by Friends World Committee for Consultation (Quakers) and Conscience and Peace Tax International, Human Rights Council, 16 March 2009
• CPTI Submission to the 95th Session of the Human Rights Committee: March 2009: Conscientious Objection to Military Service: Australia, Chad, Rwanda, Sweden
• CPTI Submissions to the 4^th Session of the UPR Working Group, February 2009: Azerbaijan, Canada, and Russian Federation
• CPTI Written Statement to the 10^th Session of the Human Rights Council—UN document no. A/HRC/10/NGO/68—February 2009
• CPTI Submissions to the 3^rd Session of the UPR Working Group, December 2008: Colombia, Israel, Serbia, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan

CPTI News Number 5—January/February 2008: Review of 2007

Dr. Jerilynn Prior, the United Nations Human Rights Committee, 1991

Conscience and the Courts

Selected Supreme Court and other cases which define conscientious objection to participation in war by Marian Franz (2006) [also available in a pdf version]

Daniel Taylor Jenkins, Petitioner, v. United States of America, Respondent

The Amicus Brief of the New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Support of the Petition to the Supreme Court for a Writ of Certiorari (5 July 2007) [also available in a pdf version].