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Can Ecocide Law Help Curb the Mass Exploitation and Killing of Animals?
In a prior post on this blog, I examined whether the existing framework of international crimes—namely, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide—could be mobilized to address…
Emerging Animal Rights and Their Anthropo-, Zoo- and Ecocentric Justifications
Editor’s note: This post is part of the EJIL:Talk! Symposium on 'Expanding Human Rights Protection to Non-Human Subjects? African, Inter-American and European Perspectives.' The idea…
Does it Make Sense to Promote the Application of International Criminal Law to Animals? If Yes, Why and How?
My instinctive reaction to this question is: “No, that does not make sense! International criminal law (ICL) is mainly about the protection of human dignity in specific contexts…
Animal Welfare Beats Freedom of Religion
Sien Devriendt and Carla M. Zoethout have recently presented, in this blog, the ECtHR judgment of 13 February 2024 in Executief van de Moslims van België et…
Animal welfare and the evolution of public morality – Requirement to stun animals prior to ritual slaughter is Convention-proof
Despite its name, the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) also protects non-human beings. On several occasions, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognized that the…
The Elephant in the (Court)Room: Interdependence of Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene
On 21 May 2020, the Islamabad High Court issued a remarkable judgment in the case of Kaavan the elephant (among other “inmates” [8] of the Marghazar Zoo),…