Inspired by animals in 2013: Day 9 – Kenya’s wild baboons

Inspired by animals in 2013: Day 9 – Kenya’s wild baboons
Post Date December 28, 2013
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Who are the animals that have most inspired people in 2013 to add their voices to the growing movement for animals? Leading up to the end of the year, AWP is celebrating the causes, campaigns and characters that have been at the forefront of helping make history for animals. Each day until the end of the year we’ll be focusing on another story. Please share far and wide.

Day 9: Wild Baboons

It will make sense to most people that if something is illegal in the UK, …

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AWP support the repeal of Section 24

AWP support the repeal of Section 24
Post Date November 13, 2013
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The Animal Welfare Party has given its backing to the campaign to repeal Section 24 of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, which places a blanket ban on regulators releasing
any information from animal experimentation laboratories.

The campaign, organized by the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS), is also supported by PETA UK, Animal Aid and the Campaign for the Freedom of Information, among others.

Section 24 has prevented open public debate and wider scientific scrutiny of the use of animals in research, a matter of intense public concern. But, …

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