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GETTING OUT!
For more information on how to get out of the military, see the War Resisters' International website for UK and the US,
and
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors   
for the US.

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Read transcript of Lords' Hansard on the Armed Forces Bill   24 July 2006

Joint Committee on Human Rights - 22nd report  17 July 2006

Lord Judd attacks Clause 8  14 June2006

Read transcript of Lord's debate on Armed Forces Bill
  14 June 2006

Read transcript of Commons' debate on Clause 8 of the Armed Forces Bill   22 May 2006

Armed Forces Bill 2006 - Section 8 (Desertion)  7 April 2006

Memorandum from Gilbert Blades, solicitor, presented to the Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill,   January 2006

Memorandum from the At Ease presented to the Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill,   January 2006

Memorandum from the Peace Pledge Union (Conscientious Objection) presented to the Select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill,   January 2006

Read the Armed Forces Bill here 1 December 2005
Payday materials
Briefing for the Lords 10 October 2006
Briefing on the Armed Forces Bill   20 July 2006
A letter to Swindon Advertiser  26 June 2006
Press release: for the Lords' 2nd Reading of the Armed Forces Bill  13 June 2006
Briefing for the Lords: for the Lords' 2nd Reading on 14th June.   9 June 2006
Payday press release: Refusing to kill is not a crime   19 May 2006
What they say: quotes from around the world in opposition to the Armed Forces Bill   17 May 2006
Briefing paper on the Armed Forces Bill   16 May 2006
Leaflet: Cross-party briefing on the Armed Forces Bill - Wednesday 17 May 2006 in London.  12 May 2006
Action Alert: NO life sentence for soldiers who refuse to be occupiers by Payday  7 April 2006
Armed Forces Bill - Section 8 Petition on Line,  7 April 2006
Press articles/letters
UK denies BBC report of 1,000 deserters since 2003   29 May 2006
MoD reveals 1100 deserted since war began   29 May 2006
3,000 UK troops are Awol since war began   29 May 2006
Life in jail proposed for UK soldiers who refuse to ‘occupy foreign states’  24 May 2006
Clause 8 inhuman, read The SCOTSMAN's opinion piece   24 May 2006
Refusal to fight: Worse than murder?   23 May 2006
The Independent, New law could hand out life sentences for Iraq deserters, 20 May 2006
SCOTSMAN: Soldiers to get life in jail for refusing to act as occupiers   19 May 2006
Article to be published in Il Manifesto -- No life sentence for soldiers who refuse to be occupiers  04 May 2006
Letter published in Liberazione  29 April 2006
Armed forces Bill - Letters to the Press  17 April 2006
Refuseniks to face life sentence, Morning Star, 11 April 2006
Soldiers going awol have trebled since the invasion of Iraq, 19 March  2006