Examples
Examples of countries with thriving civilian service programmes are Cyprus, Switzerland (Swiss Civilian Service), Finland (siviilipalvelus/civiltjänstgöring), Austria (Zivildienst) and Norway (Siviltjenesten i Norge).
Lack of alternative service in Armenia in 2003-2004 was considered to violate freedom of religion by the European Court of Human Rights in 2011.
- Conscription in Germany
- Conscription in Greece
- Conscription in the Republic of China (Taiwan)
- Alternative Service Program, United States
- Selective Service System, United States
- Civilian Public Service, United States
- Forestry service (Russia)
- Zivildienst, Austria and Switzerland
- Siviilipalvelus, Finland
Read more about this topic: Alternative Service
Famous quotes containing the word examples:
“It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people’s attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring ‘em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifry.”
—Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)