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International Centre for Animal Rights and Ethics - ICARE

Educating, mentoring, and uniting animal advocates globally to turn research and advocacy into legal protections for animals.

We are a group of animal rights law academics and practitioners who provide unparalleled educational opportunities that blend theory with practical application. Our research and advocacy activities are designed to have a wide-reaching impact, influencing legislation and ethical standards worldwide. Our focus on long-term training and network building ensures sustained advocacy and progress for ani

mal rights. Join us in our mission to transform the legal landscape for animals and achieve our vision of a world where animals are treated with justice and compassion!

07/06/2026

🚨 There are only a few days left to register for ICARE’s Constitutional Animal Rights Law online workshop.

📖✍️ On 25–26 June 2026, we will come together online to explore how constitutional law can be used more strategically for animals—in litigation, legal reform, advocacy, education, and long-term movement-building.

Over two half-days, we will examine comparative examples from Brazil, South Africa, India, Finland, and Ecuador and discuss how different legal systems have approached animal sentience, dignity, Rights of Nature, anti-cruelty principles, and constitutional protection. 🌐

This workshop is for animal advocates, lawyers, researchers, educators, students, and policy professionals who want to deepen their understanding of constitutional animal rights law and think more concretely about how it can support their work.

📅 25–26 June 2026
🕓 16:00–20:30 CEST each day
💻 Online via Zoom
🌍 In English
⏳ Registration closes on 10 June 2026
🎓 Up to 15 scholarships available

We particularly encourage scholarship applications from participants from the Global Majority, and from people from underrepresented or marginalised communities in animal advocacy and academia.

If this workshop could support your work for animals, but the fee is a barrier, please do apply as early as possible. Please also share widely around you with friends and colleagues! 🔁

👉️ Register or apply for a scholarship: icare-animals.org/carl-workshop or at the link in bio.

13/05/2026

ICARE is very pleased to share that our Founder and Executive Director, , will be in Helsinki next month for the Helsinki Animal Law Conference 2026: 'Reimagining Justice Across Species', taking place on 9–10 June 2026 at the University of Helsinki. 🇫🇮 The conference is organised by the Helsinki Animal Law Centre , in collaboration with the LEGACY and REBOUND projects.

⚖️ Marine will present on 'Recognising Animals’ Own Suffering: The Emergence of Préjudice Animalier in French Jurisprudence,' exploring an important and promising development in French case law: the legal recognition of animals’ own suffering, beyond the harm caused to human guardians or organisations. 🇫🇷🐶🐱

We are very much looking forward to being in Helsinki again, reconnecting with colleagues, and learning from many researchers and advocates in animal law, multispecies justice, and legal theory. 👩‍🏫

📖 The conference will also be preceded by the 2026 Tom Regan Memorial Lecture on 8 June 2026, a lecture taking place in Helsinki in collaboration with the Helsinki Animal Law Centre. 🗣️ It will be delivered by , with responses from Angela Fernandez, , Eva Bernet Kempers, and Werner Scholtz, and moderated by Marine. The lecture, 'From Unnecessary Suffering to Utopia: Animal Law Between Realism and Idealism,' will take place in person in Helsinki and online, and is free and open to all. 🌐

We warmly encourage anyone interested in animal law and justice across species to register and attend.

📚 Conference information and registration:
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/animal-law-centre/helsinki-animal-law-conference-2026-reimagining-justice-across-species

✍️ Tom Regan Memorial Lecture registration:
https://www.lyyti.fi/reg/Tom_Regan_Memorial_Lecture_5965

05/05/2026

🎓 Registration is now open for ICARE’s Constitutional Animal Rights Law online workshop.

Join us online on 25–26 June 2026 to explore how constitutional law can help advance animal protection and animal rights in practice. ⚖️

This workshop will explore how constitutional law can be used in practice to advance animal protection and animal rights, through case studies from Brazil, South Africa, India, Finland, and Ecuador. 🌐

📅 25–26 June 2026, 16:00–20:30 CEST
Online via Zoom
€100 — Scholarships available
Registration closes 10 June
Maximum 30 participants

Register here: icare-animals.org/carl-workshop 🔗

This is a rare opportunity to explore an emerging field of animal rights law through both comparative learning and hands-on legal thinking, with contributions from leading scholars in the field. 📖

04/05/2026

🇨🇴🦛 Colombia’s Escobar hippos are at the centre of a new legal and ethical controversy, and their future remains uncertain.

In April 2026, Colombia’s government announced a plan that could lead to the euthanasia of around 80 wild hippos. 💔

🧑‍⚖️ Animal advocates challenged the plan in court, arguing that the hippos are sentient animals and that less harmful alternatives should be taken seriously.

⚖️ Colombian media later reported that eight tutela actions were rejected by a Bogotá administrative judge. As of 4 May 2026, no publicly reported court decision appears to have suspended the euthanasia protocol.

But this does not mean the story is over. ❌️

Colombia is now also assessing a possible translocation route after Vantara, a sanctuary project in India, offered to receive 80 hippos. Any transfer would still require state approval, CITES-related checks, permits, funding, safe transport, and animal welfare guarantees. 🇮🇳

However, these hippos did not create this crisis. Humans brought them to Colombia and allowed the situation to grow for decades.💡

So the legal question is not only how to protect ecosystems and communities. 🐢🦦 It is also: what does the state owe to the sentient animals caught in a crisis humans created?

A just response cannot treat sentient animals as disposable.

How can the law respond to ecological harm without treating sentient animals as disposable? 💬

04/05/2026

🚨 Final week to register for ICARE’s Food Systems course — registration closes 10 May

Governing the Food Systems Transition: Law and Policy for Plant-Based Futures will run online from 26 May to 30 June 2026. ⚖️🍽️🫘

🌱🐷 If your work for animals touches on food systems transition, this course will help you understand where law and policy can be used more strategically.

The course is designed for advocates who want to better understand how to support food systems transitions away from animal exploitation and towards plant-based and animal-free futures. 🌐

🎓 You will learn about food systems governance, plant-based policy, alternative protein regulation, international and domestic legal frameworks, and practical policy tools for food systems change.

You will also take part in a policy clinic and work towards a roadmap you can use in your own context. ✍️💡

Registration closes on 10 May. Register here:
https://www.icare-animals.org/foodsystems-course or at the link in bio

⏳️ Spots are filling up fast. If you would like to join, especially if you want to apply for a scholarship, please register as soon as possible.

Scholarships are available, with priority for Majority World applicants.

02/05/2026

The 2nd live edition of ICARE’s Contemporary Issues in Animal Rights Law course has now been completed. Congratulations to all course participants! 👏🏽

We are pleased to share some of its impact. 🏹

📖 This cohort brought together 30 participants connected to 28 countries, including lawyers, students, researchers, NGO workers, founders, educators, advocates, campaigners, and communications professionals.

Some key results:
🎓 30 participants enrolled
🌐 46.7% of participants came from Majority World contexts
🎟️ 15 scholarships awarded
🪙 86.7% of scholarships went to Majority World participants
📚 Average self-assessed knowledge rose from 2.70/5 to 4.45/5

The course also exceeded its main delivery targets:
⭐️ 4.94/5 Overall course rating
⭐️ 4.94/5 Recommendation score
⭐️ 100% Positive ratings
🎓 70% Completion rate
✍️ 28 of 30 participants actively engaged with the course

We are also encouraged by the early signs of continued impact. Participants have already reported applying what they learned in litigation work, academic writing, rights-based advocacy, campaigning, research, and communications. ⚖️

The work is also continuing beyond the live course:
👩‍💻 around 20 participants have joined ARVAN, ICARE’s alums advocacy network
🤝 7 participants have joined the 1:1 mentorship programme
📃 12 students have been invited to develop their research into student papers

Changing the law for animals requires advocates with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to act. The CIARL live course was created to help build that capacity. 💪

Thank you to .org.au for making this edition possible, and to our lecturers, moot court trainers and judges, jury members, ICARE volunteers, and everyone who contributed their time and expertise. 🙏

If you want to learn more, the CIARL on-demand course is open for enrollment and offers a flexible way to study animal rights law at your own pace: icare-animals.org/ciarl-ondemand

27/04/2026

🐷🐔🐮 Abuse against farmed animals in slaughterhouses is often hidden.
And even where the law exists, animals are still failed in practice. 🧑‍⚖️

In our next ICARE seminar, we’ll look at how animal advocates are using investigations and litigation to challenge that violence and push for accountability.⚖️

With Caroline Lanty, a lawyer representing in cases involving animal abuse in slaughterhouses in France 🇫🇷, and , Founder and Executive Director of , where she leads investigations, strategic litigation, and advocacy for farmed animals in the Global South 🇨🇱. Moderated by Dr Anna Caramuru P Aubert.

📅 15 May 2026
🕔 17:00–18:30 CEST (Paris time)
💻 Live on Zoom

Register: https://luma.com/xutwv1j2
60 minutes of conversation + 30 minutes of live Q&A 💬

The event is free to attend and will be recorded and later available on our YouTube channel. Those who register through Luma will also receive the recording.

26/04/2026

Next month, ICARE’s Founder and Executive Director, , will be in Toronto for the AVA Summit Canada, 21–24 May. 🇨🇦

🫎 We are looking forward to reconnecting with friends in the movement, meeting new advocates, and learning from all of you working every day to build a stronger and more effective animal advocacy movement.
intl Summits are always full of insights, honest conversations, and renewed energy.🐬 For , they are also a valuable space to listen, understand where support is needed, and explore how legal education, research, and strategic support can better serve advocates working for animals worldwide. 🌐

🤝 Marine would be glad to connect with anyone who would like to share more about their work, discuss challenges they are facing, explore possible collaborations, or learn more about ICARE’s courses and support opportunities.

📲 Please feel free to reach out via the Whova app, or come say hello during a break. 👋

Small but important note: Marine is always happy to chat over matcha, and a grenadine may win her heart. 🍵🥤

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