The case for an international day to recognise animals
The United Nations designates specific days, weeks, years and decades as occasions to mark particular events or topics in order to promote, through awareness and action, the objectives of the organisation. But one key day is still missing from the UN agenda: World...
Creating a Global Biodiversity Framework plan that works: Where we are and where we’re going
In August 2021, the next step in negotiations for a pivotal UN agreement began. The Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) will lay out a ten-year strategy for the preservation of the living world until 2030 under the goal to “live in harmony with Nature in 2050”....
Why include animal welfare in the 2022 declaration?
Animal welfare is still missing at the UN and particularly in its Agenda for the Environment, even if it benefits from a growing recognition at the UN, particularly in the reports of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN Secretary-General. With the...
Two-step guide for protecting animal welfare in the UN Biodiversity Convention
Why and how the United Nations should include animal welfare in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework This week, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity process will take the next step in discussions on the most recent draft of its new ten-year strategy to...
How to Transform the Way the World Produces, Consumes & Thinks about Food
Why the UN Food Systems Summit is Already a Success Transformation – denoting a complete change to make things better – is the ambition of the UN Food Systems Summit scheduled for New York in September. The Summit aims to awaken the world to the fact that we all...
Introducing the new CEO of the World Federation for Animals
The World Federation for Animals is delighted to introduce Dr James Yeates as its new Chief Executive Officer. James has over a decade of experience in advocacy for animal welfare and is currently CEO of United Kingdom-based NGO Cats Protection, the leading cat...
Preventing the next pandemic: Submission for the UN’s High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
Statement submitted in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council in the run-up to the High-Level Political Forum, 13 - 16 July 2021: COVID-19 has brought into focus how current practices present risks not only to our health, but to economic wellbeing as...
NGO Major Group statement: Building post-Covid resilience means ending funding for unsustainable food systems
Statement by World Federation for Animals Policy Director Jessica Bridgers, on behalf of the NGO Major Group at the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development session “Building resilience against future shocks through structural changes and investment in...
The World Federation for Animals applauds EU move to end cages for farmed animals
On the 30th of June 2021, the European Commission made a historic commitment to phase out cages in animal farming across the European Union (EU). It plans to prohibit cages for hens, mother pigs, calves, rabbits, ducks, geese and other farmed animals, with the goals...
UN Declaration highlights need to protect animals for sustainable future
After lobbying by the Animal Issues Thematic Cluster, a coalition of animal protection organisations working on the sustainable development agenda, the United Nations has included the importance of recognising links between humans, animals and the environment in the...