To meet the demand for on-line access, we are arranging to bring in the expertise to set this up – without interpretation. To cover the cost and so as not to discourage in person attendance there will be a fee of £40/€50 for attendance in this fashion.
The additional accommodation cost for those staying beyond the basis three nights will be €45/£40 per night, without meals.
The accommodation cost for staying on beyond the basic three nights will be €45 / £40 per night, without meals,
A number of participants will be staying on over the nights of Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th September to attend some sessions Human Rights Council sessions. Others are welcome to join, or to stay on longer (registration for the Human Rights Council gives access from 13th September to 7th October. The extra accommodation cost, without meals, is € 45 per night.
will take place in Geneva from 16th to 19th September to coincide with the Human Rights Council session at which a resolution on conscientious objection to military service is expected. Full details and a link to the registration form can be found here.
The High Commissioner's Report (see below) will be presented to the Human Rights Council in June, and it is expected that at the following - September - session of the Council there will be a resolution on conscientious objection to military service, originally expected last year. As a result, CPTI has revived its plan to hold the next International Conference in Geneva from 16th to 19th September to coincide with that session. Full details and a registration form will be available here shortly.
In March, CPTI made a submission for to the delayed quadrennial report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on conscientious objection to military service. The submission will shortly be uploaded on this website, there should also be a link to it on ohchr.org when the report itself appears.
The content of the CPTI website has now been uploaded to this new address. For the moment it continues to be accessible from cpti.ws, but that link will eventually disappear so please make a careful note of the new address.
was the eminence grise behind the National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund and a founder member of CPTI. He is also remembered as a campaigner for the Japanese-Americans, including his first wife Miyake, who had been interned during the War. He died on December 11th, aged 93. He is much missed.
Sadly' we have to record the death of yet another giant of the peace tax movement- David Bassett.
Although he does not seem ever to have held formal office, David was the rminence grise behind the National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund in the USA, and thus indirectly of CPTI. He passed away at the age of 93 on 11th December 2021 at ther Friendly Home in Rochester NY,
A medical doctor by profession, he will also be remembered for his tireless campaigning for compensation for US citizens of Japanese origin, including his wife Miyake, who were interned during the Second World War