International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics
We educate, mentor, and unite animal rights advocates globally to turn research and advocacy into legal protections for animals. Join us for legal updates and more information about animal rights and ethics: https://www.icare-animals.org
- 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
- 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.
- 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. 🌏🐼
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 🕎🎄 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
- 🤖 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. 🐱💬
- 🦉 Key Concepts for Animal Rights Law ⚖️ Keeping animals barely alive is not enough. What does it really mean for an animal to flourish?
- 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
- 🦉 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.
- 🐾 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?
- 📚 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.'
- 🦉 Key Concepts for Animal Rights Law ⚖️ Understanding negative and positive rights helps clarify what animals truly need.
