{"id":753306,"date":"2018-05-20T10:20:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T14:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=753306"},"modified":"2018-05-20T10:31:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T14:31:37","slug":"why-human-rights-groups-are-beginning-to-support-the-rights-of-non-human-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=753306","title":{"rendered":"Why human rights groups are beginning to support the rights of non-human animals"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>When we see the horrors that human beings inflict on animals in slaughterhouses, fur farms, circuses and other settings, how can we not act? <\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>JAY SHOOSTER:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;I\u2019ve worked with many human rights organizations and admire their goals, but I\u2019ve also felt a profound sense of despair, loneliness, and disappointment at how communities that are so deeply concerned with justice can so thoroughly fail to stand up for the rights of non-human animals. When we see the horrors that human beings inflict on animals in slaughterhouses, fur farms, circuses and other settings, how, as decent people, can we not act? That was the question posed to me by a senior ACLU attorney when I sat down to talk with him about animal rights last fall&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>A week after that meeting I learned that the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) at New York University \u2014 one of the premier human rights programs in the world \u2014 was taking a stand for animal rights and committing to an all-vegetarian food policy, which was announced publicly in April of 2018&#8230; CHGRJ isn\u2019t alone. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), another of the world\u2019s leading human rights organizations, recently embraced a vegan\/vegetarian policy as \u201ca meaningful act of solidarity\u201d with the animal rights movement. The CCR policy further recognizes that an \u201cincreasing number of CCR staff members see violence against animals as contrary to a fundamental commitment to justice&#8221;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Importantly, this support for animal rights is beginning to extend beyond internal food policy to the substantive work of human rights organizations. In April 2018, the CCR supported the Nonhuman Rights Project\u2019s lawsuit to grant legal rights to chimpanzees by filing an \u201camicus brief\u201d on their behalf in the Court of Appeals of New York&#8230; The fact that change is happening in such organizations is a strong indication of a much broader, movement-wide shift towards the embrace of animal rights&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/transformation\/jay-shooster\/Why-human-rights-groups-are-beginning-to-support-the-rights-of-non-human-animals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CP-qIZrYkjM?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAY SHOOSTER: &#8216;I\u2019ve worked with many human rights organizations and admire their goals, but I\u2019ve also felt a profound sense of despair, loneliness, and disappointment at how communities that are so deeply concerned with justice can so thoroughly fail to stand up for the rights of non-human animals. 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