OBJECIÓN DE CONCIENCIA EN EL SERVICIO MILITAR COLOMBIANO DE FORMA OBLIGATORIA
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Abstract
This article is based on conscientious objection in the Colombian military
service in a mandatory manner, because this conscientious objection gives
the person the possibility of rejecting the mandate legally established by
the Colombian legal system, since it is considered that it goes against their
religious, ethical, social, and philosophical convictions, among others. For
this, the existing constitutional article 18 is the one that refers to conscientious
objection implicitly, in this way it does not appear only since 1991, but also
appeared in the Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, however, this right
has been affected by the compulsory military service, an issue that currently
has taken relevance in Colombian jurisprudence.
Therefore, conscientious objection to compulsory military service is in constant
contradiction with freedom of conscience, for this a weighing is needed to see
which prevails, whether a fundamental right or a law dictated by the legislator.