Civil conscription is the obligation of civilians to perform mandatory labour for the government. This kind of work has to correspond with the exceptions...

Conscription, also known as the draft in American English, is the practice in which the compulsory enlistment in a national service, mainly a military...

In the United States, military conscription, commonly known as the draft, has been employed by the U.S. federal government in six conflicts: the American...

forms of civil conscription for different major occupational groups or inhabitants under different denominations like civil conscription, civil mobilization...

Conscription in Russia (Russian: всеобщая воинская обязанность, romanized: vseobshchaya voinskaya obyazannost, translated as "universal military obligation"...

President Abraham Lincoln's Enrollment Act of Conscription to draft men to fight in the ongoing Civil War. The Tragic Week of 1909 was a series of confrontations...

Conscription in Australia, also known as National Service following the Second World War, has a controversial history which dates back to the implementation...

medical and dental services (but not so as to authorize any form of civil conscription), benefits to students and family allowances; Federal legislation...

military conscription has existed for two periods in modern times. The first was from 1916 to 1920, and the second from 1939 to 1960. The last conscription term...

the Allied Forces in 1945, restarted conscription in Taiwan in December 1949 just after losing the Chinese Civil War on the mainland and retreating to...

for a month and can be performed in both civil and military facilities. The aim of this civil conscription service is to convey French values, to strengthen...

Germany put conscription into abeyance on 1 July 2011. While the German constitution retains the legal instruments for reintroducing conscription in Germany...

Conscription in South Korea has existed since 1957 and requires male citizens between the ages of 18 and 35 to perform compulsory military service. Women...

which regulates duties and exceptions, all Israeli citizens who meet the conscription criteria are required to serve once they reach 18 years of age unless...

2024, President Zelensky signed new conscription laws, passed by the national legislature, that lowered the conscription age by two years, from 27 to 25,...

Sweden has had partial conscription for both men and women since 2017. After completing training, conscripts are placed in the reserve and assigned positions...

However, conscription into a full-time military service had only been instituted twice by the government of Canada, during both world wars. Conscription into...

order of battle, 60% of which were made up of members of the Guardia Civil. Conscription was introduced prior to World War II during the Philippine Commonwealth...

Conscription in Finland is part of a general compulsion for national military service for all adult males (Finnish: Asevelvollisuus; Swedish: Värnplikt)...

Conscription in Denmark (Danish: Værnepligt) is mandatory for all physically fit men over the age of 18, according to the Constitution of Denmark, §81...

selective conscription. Conscription takes place at age 17 and service ends at 30. Children of the political elites are exempt from conscription, as are...

voting against it, showing strong support for conscription of men in Switzerland. Service in the army or civil protection usually begins at the age of 20...

as a chosen job (volunteer) or as a result of an involuntary draft (conscription). Few nations, such as Israel, require a specific amount of military...

June 2013, the Norwegian Parliament voted to extend conscription to women. In 2015 conscription was extended to women making Norway the first NATO member...

government to procure the manpower needed to fight the American Civil War. The First Conscription Act, passed April 16, 1862, made any white male between 18...

will serve, and a person cannot choose where to serve. The length of conscription is between 18 months to 2 years. Before the 1979 revolution, women were...

conscription, with the results being that 75% of respondents supported a return of conscription in Serbia. A 2018 poll found support for Conscription...

system of compulsory military service. Since the late 1970s, the Chinese conscription laws mandate a hybrid system that combines conscripts and volunteers...

The Conscription Crisis of 1917 (French: Crise de la conscription de 1917) was a political and military crisis in Canada during World War I. It was mainly...

assistance for those seeking to enter the Swiss Civilian Service or bypass conscription (in German, French, and Italian) Gemeinschaft Schweizer Zivildienstleistender...