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This list of animal rights groups consists of groups in the animal rights movement.Such animal rights groups work towards their ideals, which include the viewpoint that animals should have equivalent rights to humans, such as not being "used" in research, food, clothing and entertainment industries, and seek to end the status of animals as property. [1]
Doctors Against Animal Experiments (DAAE; Ärzte gegen Tierversuche) is an animal rights organization based in Cologne, which campaigns for the complete abolition of animal testing under the motto "Medical progress is important - animal testing is the wrong way".
Animals' Party (Swedish: Djurens parti) [5] 2014– [2] Sweden EU: Animal Politics EU (European political party) 2014– European Union: Named Euro Animal 7 from 2014 to 2019. Group of 11 parties. Represented in the European Parliament with 3 seats 2019–2020. Trees Party: 2014–2020 [6] Taiwan: Animal Justice Party of Finland (Finnish ...
More recently, in 2009, the year in which the European directive on animal testing regulations was being comprehensively reviewed for the first time in over two decades, NAVS and its animal and environmental group, Animal Defenders International, joined a call for a Europe-wide ban on the use of non-human primates in research.
A spokesperson for the UK-based Understanding Animal Research organisation was sceptical about the scientists’ claims, saying: “Those who do animal testing are also the biggest investors in ...
The UCLA Pro-Test rally on 22 July 2009, with Speaking of Research members participating. Speaking of Research offered its support to the UCLA Pro-Test movement (later renamed Pro-Test for Science), which was founded in March 2009, [23] on the UCLA campus, with Holder playing a leadership role on the organizing committee. [23]
In April 2010 protesters marched through central London calling for an end to the use of animals in research,. [5] [6] [7] A similar march took place in Birmingham in 2012. [8] and Nottingham in 2014. [9] World Day and World Week For Animals In Laboratories have also attracted attention from scientific groups defending the use of animals in ...
The AVC attracted local media attention in 2014 for protests against primate testing.The group launched an online petition against the use of taxpayer money for the UK Government funding of primate tests, signed by thousands of people, [2] and criticised Newcastle University's Institute of Neuroscience for conducting experiments on macaques, calling for the UK Government to stop funding the ...