On Tuesday 19 September it was Prinsjesdag (Prince’s Day) in the Netherlands: an annual ceremonial day when the government presents its budget, and the king presents the government’s future plans. There is always a lot of press present, and the MPs of the Party for the Animals use that opportunity to share an important message via their clothing. The message this year: stop fighting a losing battl...
The Dutch Parliament has adopted a proposal put forward by Party for the Animals MP Leonie Vestering appealing to the Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality to vote against the new authorisation of glyphosate in the EU Agriculture Council. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in the world’s most widely used agricultural toxin: Round-up. Although numerous scientific studies have linked gl...
A more compassionate New Zealand (or Aotearoa as the Māori call the country) for all just got closer. Animal Justice Party Aotearoa New Zealand (AJPANZ) is officially a registered political party. This milestone marks a significant step in advocating for animal rights and promoting a plant-based economy in New Zealand. AJPANZ was incorporated in November 2022 and is now an officially registered p...
The majority of the European Parliament supports the European Nature Restoration Law, the first continent-wide nature restoration law in the world. However, this law – which is of direly needed – has been watered down considerably. MEP for the Party for the Animals Anja Hazekamp: “Whether the law will be sufficiently effective to truly restore Europe’s seriously damaged nature depends on the tenac...
Short before the summer break, Dutch Party for the Animals MP, Lammert van Raan, launched a law proposal to criminalise ecocide in the Netherlands. If this bill passes, the concept of ecocide, the massive destruction of ecosystems, will be included in the Dutch criminal law code. Van Raan: ‘With this proposal, we’re introducing a new standard to criminal law’.
Last month Canada passed a ban on animal testing for cosmetics, concluding that the testing is cruel and unnecessary. Canada joins a growing number of countries who have passed laws to limit or ban animal testing for cosmetics. Banning animal testing worldwide can save billions of animals. Already in 2018 the European Parliament, with the support of the Dutch Party for the Animals, has called for ...
Last Friday, on 1 July, the Netherlands commemorated and celebrated Keti Koti, the abolition of slavery. The Netherlands had been guilty of slavery for decades, and therefore a crime against humanity. Slavery was formally abolished in Suriname and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands on 1 July 1863. However, this was not so in practice: enslaved people were still forced to continue...