There is much disagreement as to whether non-human animals have rights, and what is meant by animal rights. There is much less disagreement about the consequences of accepting that animals have ...

The Spanish government has announced plans to ban harmful experiments on great apes as part of a wider initiative to give ...

Activists rallied on Sunday in Denver ahead of an Oct. 24 hearing with the Colorado Supreme Court, arguing that five ...

The challenge is that giving animals rights would severely limit human development and research. Still, as we learn more ...

Animal rights watchdog groups ... the same as humans and those rights should “not be violated or used for human benefit.” She suggests nonanimal alternatives for toxicity testing and points ...

Though intelligent and precocious, she has had a difficult and complicated life; her mother was a dreamer, fantasist, who ...

An orangutan which spent 20 years in an Argentine zoo is being moved to a US animal sanctuary after being granted the same legal rights as humans. Lawyers won a landmark appeal for Sandra in 2014 ...

Overall, the stark inadequacy of our environmental policies is made abundantly clear to me.

Several groups have released statements drawing attention to the increased mistreatment of stray dogs following the enactment ...

Lindsay Mikus, a famed activist in the High Falls community in New York, sadly passed away. Mikus’ death occurred on October ...

OneWhale and NOAH, two prominent animal rights organisations ... authorities to investigate what they believe is intentional human-inflicted injury. While the official autopsy report is still ...

The difference between animal rights and animal welfare has been summed up like this: Animal rights advocates are campaigning for no cages, while animal welfarists are campaigning for bigger cages.