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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A year into Myanmar military’s conscription drive, thousands of young men and women have done much the same, either heading for rebel-held borderlands out of the military regime’s reach or ...

Now, some EU states are reintroducing compulsory conscription for young men and women, as they seek to build up their military reserves. Latvia reintroduced obligatory military service for young ...

This report is the most extensive effort to date to define and understand the UAE conscription program—its successes ... and public health. Women can volunteer, but fewer than 850 have done so, ...

TASS/. The Kremlin is not currently considering increasing conscription terms or drafting women, spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Friday. "The Kremlin does not have any position on this ...

They have a "distinctive" dress with long "modest garments" for women and head coverings for ... where military conscription and integration are highly contentious issues. Few Haredi "work ...