Human Rights That Are Applicable to All pa rt II (…) (40) The participating States (…) will (…) (40.5) -recognize the right of the individual to effective remedies and endeavour to recognize, in conformity with national legislation, the right of interested persons and groups to initiate and support complaints against acts of discrimination, including racist and xenophobic acts; Paris 1990 (A New Era of Democracy, Peace and Unity) We will ensure that everyone will enjoy recourse to effective remedies, national or international, against any violation of his rights. Moscow 1991 (18.2) Everyone will have an effective means of redress against administrative decisions, so as to guarantee respect for fundamental rights and ensure legal integrity. (18.3) To the same end, there will be effective means of redress against administrative regulations for individuals affected thereby. (18.4) The participating States will endeavour to provide for judicial review of such regulations and decisions. 3.1.7 Conscientious Objection and Alternative Service Copenhagen 1990 (18) The participating States (18.1) - note that the United Nations Commission on Human Rights has recognized the right of everyone to have conscientious objections to military service; (18.2) - note recent measures taken by a number of participating States to permit exemption from compulsory military service on the basis of conscientious objections; (18.3) - note the activities of several non-governmental organizations on the question of conscientious objections to compulsory military service; (18.4) - agree to consider introducing, where this has not yet been done, various forms of alternative service, which are compatible with the reasons for conscientious objection, such forms of alternative service being in principle of a non-combatant or civilian nature, in the public interest and of a non-punitive nature; (18.5) - will make available to the public information on this issue; (18.6) - will keep under consideration, within the framework of the Conference on the Human Dimension, the relevant questions related to the exemption from compulsory 106 OSCE Human Dimension Commitments

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