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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What ethical ideas shape arguments for animals’ rights? In Module 3 of our free, self-paced CIARL On-Demand course, Professor Lori Gruen explores moral theories shaping animal rights, their influence on law & policy, and critiques of traditional approaches. Apply: icare-animals.org/ciarl-ondemand

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What does it mean to talk about animals having rights in law? ⚖️🐾 🎓 In Module 1 of our free, self-paced CIARL On-Demand Course, Dr Silvina Pezzetta explores animal rights vs welfare, sentience, current legal protections and key global challenges. 🔗 Apply: icare-animals.org/ciarl-ondemand

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

CIARL On-Demand is now free. Build your knowledge of Animal Rights Law and strengthen practical legal, research and advocacy skills through 8 expert-led, self-paced modules. Apply now: icare-animals.org/ciarl-ondemand #AnimalRightsLaw #AnimalRights

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

What if 'chic' meant challenging the rules that make exploitation appear ordinary? ⚖️🐷 💬 What would you add? 'Kind of chic to __________ for animals.' 👇️

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The EU has just opened some important doors on animal welfare reform. But will they lead to real protection for animals—or to better packaging for the livestock sector? 🇪🇺 🦉✍️ In ICARE’s new analysis, we take a close look at the European Commission’s EU Livestock Strategy and Protein Action Plan 🔍️👀

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Join ICARE on 25–26 June 2026 for our Constitutional Animal Rights Law Online Workshop. Online via Zoom 25–26 June 2026 16:00–20:30 CEST each day Registration is open until 10 June. More information and registration: icare-animals.org/carl-workshop

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Tomorrow on Zoom: Investigating and Litigating Animal Rights Violations in Slaughterhouses With Caroline Lanty (L214) and Sabina Bravo (Animal Law Focus) 🐔🐮🐷 📅 15 May 🕔 17:00–18:30 CEST (Paris time) 💻 Online via Zoom ⚠️ Registration is required to attend ✍️ Register here: luma.com/xutwv1j2

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

🚨 Final week to register for ICARE’s Food Systems course — Registration closes on 10 May. Governing the Food Systems Transition: Law and Policy for Plant-Based Futures will run online from 26 May to 30 June 2026. ⚖️🍽️🫘 Register here: www.icare-animals.org/foodsystems-...

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Este jueves 16 de abril | 17:00 CEST No se pierdan la primera conferencia en español de ICARE: ✨️ IA y derechos de los animales 🐾, con la Dra Silvina Pezzetta Inscripciones abiertas aquí: luma.com/x0n7wead ✍️ ¡Les esperamos!

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Your gift can help more advocates get the knowledge and tools they need to act for animals—and until 9 April, it will be doubled. 💜 If you would like to support ICARE's work, you can donate here: icare-animals.org/donate

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Looking for resources for your animal advocacy work? ICARE’s Resource Library keeps growing, and we’ve added new resources across: 📚 recommended readings ⚖️ key concepts for animal rights law 🤖 AI & animals 🌍 legal news about animals Stronger advocacy starts here: icare-animals.org/resource-library

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

A month ago, we released ICARE’s first e-book: 📘 Key Concepts for Animal Rights Law: A guide to critical terms for animal rights advocates (Vol. 1) . Since then, almost 800 animal advocates have already downloaded it. 🔗 Free download: www.icare-animals.org/publications...

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Next Monday: Vegan Rights Litigation in Workplaces & Public Institutions 🗓 2 March 2026 ⏰ 6 pm CET (Paris time) 📍 Online via Zoom 🎟 Free – registration required: luma.com/trstcw6x ➡️ Join us live and bring your questions: luma.com/trstcw6x

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

🌱 Free Online Lecture: Dr Olga Kikou on 'Plant-Based Policy in the EU: Countering Backlash, Securing Progress' 📅 17 March, 4 PM - 5:30 PM CET 🕓️ 🔗 Register to secure your spot: luma.com/dhbnvufi

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

📖Bibliography Recommendation🐺 Animal welfare law is often framed as being about animals under human control: it sets minimum standards of treatment & bans 'unnecessary suffering'. Wild animal law is usually geared towards species & ecosystems, so the welfare of individual animals can be sidelined🦊

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

💌 Our love language? Knowledge that empowers animal advocates. Subscribe to our newsletter at icare-animals.org/contact-us & never miss our updates! 📩

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

🎉 Voting is now OPEN, and ICARE is on Project for Awesome 2026! 🎉 🗳️ Now, we need your help! Voting takes less than a minute: 1️⃣ Click the link: projectforawesome.com/videos/icare... 2️⃣ Sign in (quick email confirmation) 3️⃣ Click 'Vote for charity' Every vote counts. 🙏

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

ICARE Seminar: Vegan Rights Litigation 🧑‍⚖️ 🌱🐮 📅 2 March 2026 🕕 6:00 pm CET 📍 Live on Zoom 🎟 Free registration: luma.com/trstcw6x with Camille Labchuk, animal rights lawyer & Executive Director of Animal Justice, & Rune-Christoffer Dragsdahl, Executive Director of the Vegetarian Society of Denmark

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Animal rights need more than goodwill. They need legal knowledge and skills. ⚖️ 🦉 ICARE’s Contemporary Issues in Animal Rights Law (CIARL) On-Demand course is open for enrolment: icare-animals.org/ciarl-ondemand 🎓 Scholarships are available to ensure access regardless of financial means.

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Bibliography Recommendation | Veganuary Special Edition 🌱📚 🇨🇳 China is one of the world’s most populous countries, so dietary shifts in China matter enormously for animals, people and the planet. 🌏🐼

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

In Q1/Q2 2026, ICARE will pilot a 1:1 mentorship pool for ARVAN, connecting experienced advocates and practitioners with ICARE alums working on concrete animal advocacy and animal law projects. 📧 If you’d like to join the mentor pool, email us at info@icare-animals.org.

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Key Concepts for Animal Rights Law — Special Edition: #Veganuary 🌱📚 #Veganism is not a lifestyle or a diet, but an ethical position rejecting animal exploitation and violence 🐮🐔🐟 Yet within #animaladvocacy, we don't always agree on how to #campaign.

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Robin Happel (Environmental Lawyer, USA) completed the CIARL on-demand course and shared: 💬 “I really enjoyed the CIARL course and found it very useful as an environmental lawyer.” ✍️ Enrol now at icare-animals.org/ciarl-ondemand

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

ICARE’s submission to the European Commission consultation on modernising EU on-farm animal welfare legislation is available on our Publications page. 🐓🐷🐟 We want to celebrate everyone who took the time to participate. Read/download: icare-animals.org/publications/eu-consultation-aw

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ICARE submission to the European Commission public consultation on modernising EU on-farm animal welfare legislation — ICARE

Overview This submission responds to the European Commission’s 12-week public consultation ( 19 September–17 December 2025 ) supporting the impact assessment for a revision of EU on-farm animal…

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

🕎🎄 The holiday season can be especially challenging for animal advocates. ✍️ We’ve published a new blog post as part of our Mental Health and Animal Advocacy series, reflecting on how animal advocates can navigate the end-of-year period with more care. 🔗 Read at icareanimals.substack.com

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

🤖 AI and Animals 🐾 New research on cats shows how artificial intelligence can help us recognise pain more accurately and with less subjectivity. Facial cues matter, yet manual analysis is slow, inconsistent, and heavily dependent on expert training. 🐱💬

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

🦉 Key Concepts for Animal Rights Law ⚖️ Keeping animals barely alive is not enough. What does it really mean for an animal to flourish?

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Help build the #legalchange #animals need to be more than property this #GivingTuesday. ICARE, a volunteer-only women-led org, has trained 150 #advocates from 50 countries through 4 courses this year. Our founder matches gifts up to €1,000 until 31/12. Donate: icare-animals.org/donate #AnimalRights

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

🦉 Bibliography Recommendation 📚 Looking to explore fresh perspectives on wild animals’ rights beyond the usual focus on freedom? 🐿️ 🖍️ This week’s pick invites us to rethink what sovereignty might mean when applied to wild animal communities, and whether the concept truly fits.

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

🐾 AI and Animals 🤖 AI is now deeply embedded in our everyday lives, and the lives of animals, too. While conservation projects and attempts to decode animal communication often receive the spotlight, what is going on with 'pet' animals?

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

📚 Bibliography Recommendation 🐷 How do animal welfare inspections really unfold on Europe’s farms and in slaughterhouses? This week, we recommend Eimear McLoughlin’s ethnographic paper, 'Change the world farm by farm: The moral care of audit and the paradox of animal welfare inspection in Europe.'

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

🦉 Key Concepts for Animal Rights Law ⚖️ Understanding negative and positive rights helps clarify what animals truly need.

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

🇨🇴 Colombia is bringing animal protection into schools 🦉 Ley Empatía seeks to integrate animal protection, animal welfare, and biodiversity conservation into Colombia’s official education framework. 🐾 The law is now awaiting promulgation.

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

📚 Bibliography Recommendation 🦉 In Iberia Líneas Aéreas de España (C-218/24), the Court of Justice held on 16 October 2025 that a passenger’s companion animal lost during international air carriage falls within the concept of 'baggage' under Article 17(2) of the 1999 Montreal Convention. ✈️🐶

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

⚖️ Key Concepts for Animal Rights Law: Captivity 🦉 We usually think captivity means physical restraint and the inability to move freely. But this concept is more complex. So what does captivity mean, especially for other animals? 🐾

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

🦉 Join us for Seminar #4: Right to Rescue & Voluntary Prosecution in Animal Advocacy, an unflinching look at how movement-lawyering is reshaping animal rights law and accountability for animal exploitation. ⚖️🐔🐶 🗓 10 December 2025, 5 PM CET 💻 Registration via Luma: luma.com/0b7oma41

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

📖 We’re pleased to share this event co-organised by the Journal of Animal Rights Law (JARL) and the GW Animal Law Animal Legal Education Initiative (ALEI) — the Encyclopedia of Animal Law Launch Symposium, on 11 December 2025 (9 am – 3 pm EST / 3 pm – 9 pm CET). Register here: luma.com/0k6iwpwx

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Kristof Dhont @kristofdhontphd.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

New research on the associations between ideological orientations & commitment to eating animal products, incl dairy, eggs, & fish, not just meat, across dietary groups, incl omnis, flexis, pescis, & veggies Maria Ioannidou et al www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

🦉 Bibliography Recommendation 📚 As recently as the 80s, human babies were thought to be unconscious beings and surgeries were once performed on them without anaesthesia 😢.

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

🦉 Bibliography Recommendation 📚 As recently as the 80s, human babies were thought to be unconscious beings and surgeries were once performed on them without anaesthesia 😢.

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Josh Milburn @joshmilburn.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

On the latest episode of Knowing Animals, I speak to Doris Schneeberger about her 2024 Palgrave book Envisioning a Better Future for Nonhuman Animals: Towards Future Animal Rights Declarations. The episode is available free below or in all the usual places. knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-243-...

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 03/11/2025

In Iberia (C-218/24), the CJEU ruled that a companion animal lost during international air travel counts as “baggage” under the Montreal Convention. MARINE LERCIER criticizes how Iberia turned dogs into luggage: verfassungsblog.de/sentient-com...

Turning dogs into luggage neglects the social reality where the loss of companion animals foreseeably causes moral harm to their human guardians. MARINE LERCIER

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

🦉 Explore ICARE’s new Resource Library! 🌐📚 We’re delighted to unveil our latest digital hub – the Resource Library – bringing together ICARE’s original educational and research-based materials designed to make complex legal and ethical ideas accessible. 🔗 icare-animals.org/resource-library

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Animal Justice @animal-justice.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Animal advocate Zoe Rosenberg has been convicted of felony conspiracy & 3 misdemeanours for rescuing 4 sick chickens from a CA slaughterhouse. This unfortunate verdict is yet another example of how the legal system protects abusive industries & often punishes those who try to help. #PerdueTrial

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

🎃 The real scare this Halloween? The ghosts of old laws still haunt our courts. 👻 In Iberia (C-218/24), the Court of Justice of the EU ruled that when a companion animal like Mona 🐕 is lost on a flight, the harm caused to her human guardian is treated as the loss of mere 'baggage'.

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

AI and Animals 🐷🤖 Artificial Intelligence is stepping into farms, but not without raising new ethical questions. The UK’s IntelliPig project, led by animal welfare researcher Ema Baxter, is developing a system to monitor pigs individually using facial recognition and AI-driven data.

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

📚 Bibliography Recommendation 🦉 Can non-human animals follow social norms too? 🐘🐒🐦

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

👩‍🏫 Key Concepts for Animal Rights Law 🐿️ 🤔 Have you ever wondered if animals act in the same way (some) humans do? Or, in other words, do you think animals act guided by wants and goals?

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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics @icareanimals.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

📣 Join us at 5 pm CEST (Paris time) for the 3rd seminar in ICARE’s Litigating & Legislating for Animal Rights series — it’s not too late to register! 👉 luma.com/7zvblvhj ⚖️ Christopher Berry, Executive Director of the Nonhuman Rights Project, will be in conversation with Dr Anna Caramuru P. Aubert.

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