Last month Denmark announced plans to become the 10th country to extend military conscription to women, in response to Russia's growing aggression on Nato's eastern front. "We do not rearm because ...

Copenhagen announced that young women who turn 18 after July 1 of this year could be drafted by national lottery starting in ...

Nations like Poland and Latvia have already reintroduced conscription, bracing for the worst. However, women have not been called up to the compulsory military service in either country.

Latvia is one of several European countries where debates on integrating women in the armed forces is an important dimension of contemporary approaches to conscription. Facing a volatile external ...

Indeed, there are other fundamental reasons to oppose not just the presence of women in the infantry but their forcible conscription into its ranks. Such a policy inverts natural law and the rules ...

Rinkēvičs told Sky News that there had also been discussion in his country about whether there is a need to introduce conscription for women. “Currently, that is not a decision that has been t ...

When you think of wartime conscription you potentially think of young men heading to the front lines to fight for our freedom - but in the unlikely (but possible) event that World War Three breaks ...

The upper limit was later raised to 51, with married men also eligible. Women could find themselves drafted if conscription was ever re-introduced in the UK. More than 640,000 women served in the ...

The Prime Minister has been urged to think about the return of conscription - leaving many people wonder whether they'd be called up to fight. Britain's gradual decrease of soldiers have raised ...

As global tensions ratchet up defensive preparations, countries are beginning to reconsider whether conscripting only men into their armed forces will be enough. Ukraine should get rid of its "old ...

Soldiering is voluntary for women in most countries, but conscription is on the rise. DW provides an overview of women in the military worldwide. Denmark is the latest country to introduce ...