One Health & Animals in UN Declaration
Date: 27 July 2022 Earlier this month, representatives of countries from around the world gathered in New York for the annual review of the sustainable development agenda, the High-level Political Forum. In its closing, they adopted a final declaration that...
Building back better: Animal welfare, environment & sustainable development nexus
This event took place on the margins of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development on 15 July 2022. It was organised by the Animal Issues Thematic Cluster, and co-hosted by the World Federation for Animals (WFA) and the International Coalition for...
Exporting animals around the world for slaughter – wrong on so many levels
Date: 14 July 2022 Who knew that sheep could...
Global warning on biodiversity
Date: 11 July 2022 Last month, delegations from Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) convened for a fourth round of talks in Nairobi. They met in an attempt to finalise the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework that the Conference of the...
Preventing the next pandemic, the One Health Joint Plan of Action and a better way of enabling health for all
All of us have and are living through unprecedented times....
Creating Guidelines on Animal Welfare in Agricultural Development
The World Federation for Animals in partnership with the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) and Wageningen University are collaborating to develop guidelines on improving animal...
Civil society tells UN Member States to repeal subsidies for practices with detrimental animal welfare impacts
“Governments must reverse the global expansion of industrialised animal farming and agriculture”, recommend NGOs from around the world as an avenue to advance the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In their 2022 position paper for the High-level...
One last push – a new Global Biodiversity Framework is at stake this month in Nairobi
World representatives must adopt new goals and targets to put biodiversity on a path to recovery. Later this year, the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15)[1] of the Convention of Biological Diversity offers the opportunity to make this happen. Prior to COP15, the...
Updated animal health & welfare standards recommended by WOAH
The World Assembly of Delegates of the World Organisation for Animal Health (formerly OIE and now WOAH) concluded its 89th Annual General Session last week. WFA, members and partners, under the International Coalition for Animal Welfare (ICFAW), participated in the...
Supporting Sentience
Alongside...