{"id":756126,"date":"2019-02-05T09:05:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T14:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=756126"},"modified":"2019-02-05T09:05:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T14:05:21","slug":"swiss-canton-to-hold-referendum-on-giving-primates-basic-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=756126","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Canton to Hold Referendum on Giving Primates Basic Rights"},"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>Sentience Politics, an animal rights group fighting species discrimination, Is behind the initiative.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SPUTNIK:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Basel-Stadt, one of 26 cantons in Switzerland, is considering granting fundamental rights to life to non-human primates following a court ruling allowing a referendum on the issue to be held. An animal rights group fighting species discrimination, Sentience Politics, is behind the initiative.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>In 2016, the think-tank presented its proposal which aims to guarantee the fundamental rights to life, and to mental and physical integrity, for chimpanzees, orangutans, and bonobos \u2014 the animals that form non-human primates. After its launch, the group managed to get 3,000 signatures \u2014 the exact number needed to initiate a referendum in Basel-Stadt&#8217;.<\/em> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/viral\/201901251071826626-referendum-switzerland-primates-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SOURCE&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-wkdH_wluhw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPUTNIK: &#8216;Basel-Stadt, one of 26 cantons in Switzerland, is considering granting fundamental rights to life to non-human primates following a court ruling allowing a referendum on the issue to be held. An animal rights group fighting species discrimination, Sentience Politics, is behind the initiative. In 2016, the think-tank presented its proposal which aims to guarantee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":756129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,21,23],"tags":[34,35,36],"class_list":["post-756126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-kisnship","category-rights","tag-personhood","tag-protection","tag-sentience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756126","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=756126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756130,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756126\/revisions\/756130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/756129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}