This video examines the experiences described by female North Korean defectors about mandatory military service under the country's conscription system. Drawing on their accounts, it explores long ...
Spring is a wonderful time to be out in Dushanbe – unless you are a young man trying to avoid forced military conscription. By local standards, there was nothing unusual in how TV journalist Shohruh ...
new video loaded: Russian army stages air show in Crimea to promote conscription Russia's Air Force stages an air show in Crimea to promote conscription in the Russian army among Crimean people. Rough ...
The implementation of the People’s Military Service Law will allow the military to increase its control over women’s lives and bodies. Myanmar’s current conscription system is an act of fascist ...
The idea that conscription, defined as the compulsory enlistment of citizens for military service, can increase equality and instil a sense of solidarity that transcends traditional societal divides ...
Before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many, including Kyiv, were skeptical that a major war could return to Europe. More than two years on, another shift once unthinkable is ...
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Protests have broken out in Israel demanding an end to the Middle East war sparked by a US-Israeli strike on Iran in February 2026, but a video circulating online that shows people clashing with the ...
Part of a three-story series to mark the fourth anniversary of Myanmar’s 2021 coup, looking at how the military treats its own soldiers. Thirty-year-old Aung Aung was arrested at gunpoint on a July ...
The remains of a Russian Army armoured column in Bucha, Ukraine on 09 April 2022. Geopix/Alamy Russian president Vladimir Putin has yet to call for universal conscription, although he recently ...
“Kriegstüchtig” does not trip easily off the English tongue. Nor does it fall easily on German ears. Translated roughly as “war-ready”, it is a word deployed by Boris Pistorius, the defence minister, ...