{"id":749646,"date":"2017-12-15T19:54:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T19:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=749646"},"modified":"2017-12-15T19:56:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T19:56:13","slug":"nonhuman-person-chimpanzee-cecilia-finds-sanctuary-an-interview-with-gap-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=749646","title":{"rendered":"Nonhuman Person Chimpanzee Cecilia Finds Sanctuary: An Interview with GAP Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LAUREN CHOPLIN:<\/strong> <em>\u2018In November of 2016, an Argentine judge issued a ruling that has changed the life of a single chimpanzee\u2014and could help do the same for other autonomous nonhuman animals. Thanks to litigation brought by an Argentine organization (AFADA) and modeled on the NhRP\u2019s habeas petitions in the US, Cecilia\u2014formerly held alone in captivity at the Mendoza Zoo\u2014is now considered a \u201cnon-human legal person\u201d with \u201cinherent rights.\u201d On April 5th, pursuant to this ruling, she arrived at the Great Ape Project Brazil\u2019s Sanctu\u00e1rio de Sorocaba.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>This past week, we checked in with our friends at GAP Brazil, who kindly took some time out of their tireless work to talk to us about how everything\u2019s been going and the importance of Cecilia having found sanctuary by being recognized as a legal person with rights\u2026 To learn more about GAP Project International and GAP Brazil, visit their website. We\u2019ll see if we can check in with them again once Cecilia\u2019s had time to adjust to life as a free chimpanzee\u2019.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nonhumanrights.org\/blog\/chimpanzee-cecilia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>SOURCE\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9jQPqkG8Lkc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAUREN CHOPLIN: \u2018In November of 2016, an Argentine judge issued a ruling that has changed the life of a single chimpanzee\u2014and could help do the same for other autonomous nonhuman animals. Thanks to litigation brought by an Argentine organization (AFADA) and modeled on the NhRP\u2019s habeas petitions in the US, Cecilia\u2014formerly held alone in captivity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":749647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,21,23],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-749646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justice","category-kisnship","category-rights","tag-personhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=749646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749648,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749646\/revisions\/749648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/749647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=749646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}