Tag Archives: animal rights

Sir David Madden commends the initiative for a Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare as an attempt to acknowledge the welfare of sentient animals, and recognise animal welfare as an issue of importance for global social development.

What can it mean to extend fundamendal rights beyond the boundaries of our species, asks Paola Cavalieri. It primarily implies that animals are transformed into subjects of legal rights, and, as a consequence, all the exploitative practices that are today made possible by their current status are prohibited.

Josef Bordat raises two main concerns over Peter Singer’s concept of animal rights: the equalisation of animals and human beings and the separation of human beings into different categories.