Press Release: New legislation for pigs saved from illegal situation in Italy
On the 21st of January 2020, twenty-five pigs have been found abandoned in an illegal landfill in the Lombardia region (Cadegliano Viconago). According to investigators, it is not excluded that they were raised and then slaughtered illegally: The area, completely...
Urban birds facing starvation during lockdown
As long as people have to stay at home, stray dogs & cats as well as urban birds are facing starvation unless if governments allow some citizens to take responsibility. In some countries, even monkeys are suffering from starvation because they were habituated In...
Α statistician who is working in crisis modelling and simulation informing us οn the coronovirus.
The next two months will be critical. We will remember them for the rest of our lives. I would like to offer a few pieces of information, under the burden of my professional capacity as a statistician who is working in crisis modelling and simulation, and the...
Press release: Toulon Declaration: “Animals must be considered as non-human natural persons”
On Friday, 29 March 2019, scholars from the Faculty of Law provided a legal response to the Cambridge Declaration. The Toulon Declaration states that animals should be considered as "non-human natural persons" and not as things. The Cambridge Declaration, proclaimed...
Letter to the United Nations – WoDES 2018
Dear members of the General Assembly of the United Nations, Dear members of the institutions attached to the United Nations, This 25th August is the World Day for the End of Speciesism. The notion of speciesism can be understood by analogy with racism or sexism;...