Universal Declaration wins key preliminary to U.N. approval

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 200 &

 

 

Universal Declaration wins key preliminary to U.N. approval

 

PARIS--The 169-nation World Organization for Animal Health

(Office International des Epizooties) on May 25, 2007 ratified the

present edition of the Universal Declaration on Animal Wel-fare,

including recognition of animals' sentience.

The World Society for the Protection of Animals and ancestral

bodies have sought since 1952 to win United Nations approval of

various versions of the Universal Declaration, which evolved out of

documents drafted for presentation to the League of Nations in 1924

and 1926.

If approved by the U.N., the Universal Declaration would

become international law. OIE ratification is regarded as a critical

preliminary to placing the declaration before the U.N., which has

not yet reviewed any of the drafts. Created by the League of Nations

in 1920, the World Organization for Animal Health was among the few

surviving League projects that were moved to the U.N. when it formed

in 1945.

`ANIMAL PEOPLE extensively reviewed the history and content

of the Universal Declaration in " Compromise & the Universal

Declaration on Animal Welfare, " July/August 2005.

A petition in support of the declaration is online at

<www.animalsmatter.org>.

 

 

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