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World Animal Justice (WAJ) represent Global animal lawyers fighting to end animal crimes, defend rights, and establish legal recognition for crimes against animality worldwide

05/06/2026

🎉 World Animal Justice is so honoured to be a full member of Eurogroup for Animals for a second year! 🐾
🤝 The work that Eurogroup for Animals does for animals across Europe speaks for itself, and we greatly value the achievements secured this year👍
🐶 The adoption of the first EU-wide rules on the welfare of cats and dogs.
🧪 The EU Roadmap towards phasing out animal testing for chemical safety.
📢 The large-scale public consultation on the revision of the EU animal welfare legislation.
🐔 The landmark CJEU hearing concerning the Commission’s failure to deliver on its commitment to end cages following the successful End the Cage Age European Citizens’ Initiative, with the Court’s ruling still pending.

👏 Congratulations to the Eurogroup for Animals’ team and its members for these important actions aimed at strengthening animal protection and improving the enforcement of existing animal welfare legislation. ⚖️

🌱 This year, World Animal Justice is particularly active in the Common Agricultural Policy process through our Food Forward Europe initiative.
💶 We are calling for EU agricultural subsidies to comply with EU law and sustainability commitments by increasingly shifting harmful public funding away from the livestock industry, towards plant-based food production. 🌿

👉 Read more here: https://www.foodforwardeurope.org/
✍️ NGOs can endorse Food Forward Europe Joint Statement until 12 June: https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=wise&passive=1209600&osid=1&continue=https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenYxcOFtTOfFo_n1pQLQ1CdlK1ubtNZs-ZY7jUKT-gyvaETA/viewform&followup=https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenYxcOFtTOfFo_n1pQLQ1CdlK1ubtNZs-ZY7jUKT-gyvaETA/viewform<mpl=forms

Together, we can help ensure that public funds serve the public good: For animals, people, and the planet. 🌍💚

20/05/2026

🐾❓ Are you an NGO willing to support a shift away from animal exploitation massively subsidized by public funds — toward greater support for plant-protein production and more accessible, affordable alternatives?

🌱 At a crucial time for the future of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP 2028–2034), Food Forward Europe and partnering NGOs are calling for public funds to serve the public good: for animals, people, and the planet.

📢 Join this collective call for:
✅ More sustainable food systems
✅ Alignment with EU climate, environmental, and animal welfare goals
✅ Greater food resilience and protein autonomy
✅ Fairer and future-proof agricultural funding

📄 Read the Joint Statement here: https://www.foodforwardeurope.org/

✍️ NGOs are invited to endorse the Statement here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenYxcOFtTOfFo_n1pQLQ1CdlK1ubtNZs-ZY7jUKT-gyvaETA/viewform

18/05/2026

🚨 Don’t Miss this Food Forward Europe Webinar Tomorrow! 🚨
❗European agricultural subsidies still massively support animal farming, with minor support to plant-based food for human consumption.
🌱 This event will make the case for a needed shift, aligning with EU legal obligations and policy commitments for more sustainable and resilient food systems, animal welfare, climate mitigation and environmental protection.
👉 Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_496EDyRAT_uDT8H2Dg1nQA #/registration

14/05/2026

🌱 Food Forward Europe Free Webinar – Join us live!
💶 Rebalancing EU CAP Subsidies Toward Plant-Based Production:
Legal & Policy Recommendations for People, Animals and the Planet
📅 Tuesday, 19 May 2026
⏰ 14:30–16:00 CEST (UTC+2)

👉 Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_496EDyRAT_uDT8H2Dg1nQA #/registration

❗ Why this matters
The EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) continues to shape Europe’s food systems at scale. Yet today, public subsidies remain structurally skewed toward livestock and feed-dependent production — while plant-based protein systems for human consumption remain under-supported.

⚖️ This imbalance raises serious concerns regarding policy coherence with EU legal obligations and sustainability commitments, including:
- Binding EU climate targets (Art. 3 & 4 of the European Climate Law)
- Environmental integration (Art. 11 TFEU)
- Animal welfare (Art. 13 TFEU)
- Environmental protection (Art. 37 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights)

➡️ Since the next CAP (2028-2034) is under negociation, rebalancing support is not just a policy debate — it is a legal, strategic, and systemic imperative for farm animals, the environment, and public health.

❓ Who should attend
- EU policymakers and public officials
- Legal experts in EU, environment, climate, animal welfare, health, food law
- NGOs, advocates, and researchers working on food systems, sustainability, and animal protection

🎯 What you will gain
- A clear analysis of structural imbalances in CAP subsidies
- Legal and policy insights on CAP reform pathways
- Actionable recommendations to support plant-protein production
- Strategic perspectives on EU protein autonomy and food system resilience

🎓 Speakers & contributions
- Food Forward Europe: Sabine Brels, Minna Hakaoja, Alessandro Ricciuti
-> Presentation of the FFE report: “Future-Proofing the CAP: Reallocating 20% of Livestock and Feed Support”

🎙️ Guest speakers
- Anna S. (Green REV Institute): 'Following the Money: Mapping CAP Subsidies and the Justice Gap in EU Food Systems'
- EVU representative: 'Protein Diversification: How the Next CAP Can Support Farmers'
- Olivier Morice (L214): 'Unlocking Public Debate to Drive Change in the Food System'
- Clémence Peyrot (ObSAF): 'Public Subsidies and CAP Inconsistencies: The Case of the Foie Gras Sector in France'

-> Presentations will be followed by panel discussion and Q&A.

🌾 Public money shapes food systems.
🌍 This is about aligning it with the public good.

➡️ Join us to explore how CAP reform can drive a more sustainable, resilient, and legally coherent EU food system.

👉 Save your spot now:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_496EDyRAT_uDT8H2Dg1nQA #/registration

29/04/2026

🌱Breaking News: Food Forward Europe’s Report is Out!
🌟Today we are thrilled to launch our new report: “Future-Proofing the CAP: Rebalancing EU Subsidies Toward Plant-Based Production”

👉Read the Full Report here:https://worldanimaljustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/FFE-REPORT-Future-Proofing-the-CAP-2026.pdf

💡 The reality is striking:
EU agricultural subsidies still structurally reinforce livestock and animal feed-dependent systems, while plant-protein production for human consumption remains marginally supported—despite climate, environmental, and animal welfare imperatives that would be supported by a meaningful transition of our food system.

⚖️ A legal and policy gap is emerging.
This report's objective is to help align EU agricultural spending with:
🌿 EU sustainability commitments (Green Deal, Farm to Fork, plant-protein strategic autonomy-still widely relying on imports)
⚖️ EU legal obligations (climate targets, environmental protection, animal welfare)
🌍 Transition toward sustainable food systems for animals, humans and the planet

🚀 Our proposal is simple and actionable:
➡️ Reallocate 20% of CAP support toward plant-based protein production for human consumption.

A fiscally neutral but structurally transformative lever to:
🌍 Strengthen EU food security and protein autonomy
🌿 Align with climate and environmental commitments
🐄 Improve animal welfare outcomes
📊 Increase policy coherence across EU frameworks

🔎 The report provides:
• A comprehensive legal assessment of the CAP
• Identification of legal vulnerabilities and litigation pathways
• Concrete policy recommendations for the post-2027 reform

📢 As CAP reform discussions accelerate, this is a critical window to realign public funding with the EU’s long-term objectives.

💡 We warmly welcome your feedback and thoughts. What do you think?

👉Report's Executive Summary (4 pages) here:https://worldanimaljustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Report-Food-Forward-Europe-2026-Executive-Summary.pdf

➡️ Discover more: https://www.foodforwardeurope.org/report

🙏 Food Forward Europe expresses its sincere gratitude to all contributors, reviewers, and institutional partners whose expertise and engagement have significantly strengthened the quality and rigour of this report.

✍️ Lead author
Caroline Defois – Food Forward Europe (FFE)
🧭 Report Coordinator
Dr. Sabine Brels – Food Forward Europe (FFE)
🤝 Contributors
Helena Lettieri, Cecily Luther, Serena Shah, University of Southampton Legal Clinics (led by Dr Omar Madhloom)
🔎 Reviewers & contributors
- Alessandro Ricciuti – ALI - Animal Law Italia ETS / REFOOD (Redefine Food) / Food Forward Europe
- Anna S. – Green REV Institute
- ObSAF
⚖️ External peer review
Daniel Sarmiento – EU law expert
🎨 Design & layout
Flavia Groza – EyeSpark

17/03/2026

💥 Did you miss our latest webinar on animals in crime convergence?
🎥 Watch it here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H1PrXR4jETc

🔎 Discover how animal exploitation fuels transnational organized crime — from wildlife trafficking to legal livestock trade systems intersecting with drug and weapons networks.

🎤 Great expert contributions you don’t want to miss:
👉 Dr Meganne NATALI, Ph.D – “Wildlife trafficking at the crossroads of drug and weapons organized crime”
⏱️ Starting at 04:03
👉 Luis Carlos Sarmiento Martínez – “Cattle shipping from South America and its role in international drug trafficking”
⏱️ Starting at 22:27

⚖️ At stake: the 15th UN Crime Congress, where decisions shaping global criminal justice are being discussed — yet animal victims remain largely overlooked.

🌍 Why this matters now more than ever:
Animal exploitation is not a marginal issue — it is a structural component of global crime systems. Ignoring it means missing a key leverage point to fight organized crime effectively.

🚀 For the future of global animal justice advocacy, this is a turning point:
👉 Bringing animals into crime convergence and international law discussions
👉 Closing major legal and enforcement gaps
👉 Positioning animal protection as a core justice issue

🌍 World Animal Justice will be actively present in this process — ensuring that animals are no longer invisible in global crime and justice frameworks.

🤝 Join forces! Because advancing animal justice requires addressing together the systems that enable indefensible animal exploitation at scale.

🎥 Watch now: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H1PrXR4jETc

⚠️ Note: We apologise for the blurry speaker visuals during the first minutes due to an unexpected technical issues, the rest of the webinar runs smoothly.

07/03/2026

💥Can the European Commission ignore commitments made to citizens?

⚖️2 days ago, the Court of Justice of the European Union (Luxembourg) held a historic hearing on the European Commission’s failure to act on the European Citizens’ Initiative.

✍️ Supported by 1.4 million verified signatures and more than 170 organisations, the initiative called for EU legislation to phase out cages in animal farming. In 2021, the Commission committed to present such legislation by 2023 — yet no proposal has been delivered.

🎓As a result, the End the Cage Age Citizens’ Committee brought legal action against the Commission, with several animal protection NGOs granted leave to intervene before the Court.

📜 At stake is a crucial rule-of-law question for the EU: Are commitments made by the Commission in response to a successful European Citizens’ Initiative legally meaningful — or merely political promises without accountability?

🐖 Outside the Court, advocates gathered with ‘Hope’, the giant inflatable pig, symbolising the millions of farmed animals still suffering in cages across Europe.

⏳ The Court’s ruling is expected in a few weeks.

🤝 Thanks to our partner ALI - Animal Law Italia ETS ) and ALI’s director Alessandro Ricciuti, our WAJ expert specially reporting from the hearing.

➡️Source here:
https://lnkd.in/d6-_4zcQ

📸 Photo: ALI / End the Cage Age coalition

03/03/2026

🚨In 7 days: Speaker Announcement – WAJ Webinar (10 March 2026) 🚨
WAJ is honoured to feature Dr Meganne NATALI, Ph.D presentation:
“Wildlife trafficking at the crossroads of drug and weapons organized crime”

👉 Register now: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/RBw-KpjMQguXrW721hdSrg #/registration

🧨 Wildlife trafficking does not operate in isolation. It is embedded within broader organized crime ecosystems—sharing routes, facilitators, financial mechanisms, and corruption structures with drug and weapons trafficking.

💡 In some contexts, this traffic facilitates other illicit markets by providing logistical cover, established smuggling routes, or even testing grounds for drug trafficking. In others, its revenues directly contribute to the acquisition of weapons and the financing of armed groups.

👉 Dr Meganne Natali will unpack these dynamics and examine why, despite this convergence, wildlife trafficking continues to be treated as a peripheral offence—highlighting how gaps in criminalisation, sanctions, and enforcement enable criminal networks to exploit systemic weaknesses.

🎤 Also featuring:
Luis Sarmiento – “Cattle shipping from South America and its role in international drug trafficking”

🗓 Date: 10 March 2026
🕒 Time: 15:00–16:00 CET

🌍 Organized by World Animal Justice (WAJ) in the lead-up to her participation as a WAJ Expert at the 15th UN Crime Congress, this timely webinar brings animals into the global criminal justice conversation.

🔹Format:
2 expert presentations • Moderated discussion by WAJ Director • Live Q&A

➡️ Register now: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/RBw-KpjMQguXrW721hdSrg #/registration

❗ Don’t miss this unique opportunity to explore how animal exploitation fuels transnational organized crime.

02/03/2026

💥In just 8 days: Speaker Announcement – WAJ Webinar (10 March 2026)
Honoured to feature Luis Carlos Sarmiento Martínez, Director of Proyecto ALA, in our WAJ webinar: ‘Animals at the Core of Crime Convergence’ 💥

👉 Register Now: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/RBw-KpjMQguXrW721hdSrg

🚨His talk: “Cattle shipping from South America and its role in international drug trafficking”🚨
🐮 Over the past decade, live cattle exports from South America have expanded rapidly, despite well-documented risks to animal welfare, human safety, and the environment. 🚢

💡 Beyond these concerns, emerging evidence suggests that livestock vessels may be exploited to conceal illegal drug trafficking—leveraging established maritime routes, logistical systems, and regulatory blind spots.

❗Luis Sarmiento will uncover these hidden dimensions, exposing how this trade may intersect with broader criminal networks and systemic enforcement failures.

🎤 This webinar panel is also featuring:
🎓 Dr Meganne NATALI, Ph.D: “Wildlife trafficking at the crossroads of drug and weapons organized crime”

🗓 Date: 10 March 2026
🕒 Time: 15:00–16:00 CET

🌍 Organized by World Animal Justice (WAJ) in the lead-up to our participation at the 15th UN Crime Congress in April 2026, this timely webinar brings animals into the global criminal justice conversation.

➡️ Format:
2 expert presentations • Moderated discussion by WAJ director • Live Q&A

👉 Register now: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/RBw-KpjMQguXrW721hdSrg

🧨 Don’t miss this unique opportunity to explore how animal exploitation fuels transnational organized crime.

18/02/2026

🌍🐾 New Partnership Announcement: World Animal Justice & Animal Law Italia

We are delighted to announce our new partnership with ALI - Animal Law Italia ETS 🇮🇹

🤝 Together, we join forces to advance animal law and policy at EU level, strengthening legal frameworks, enforcement, and recognition of animals as sentient beings across jurisdictions.

Animal Law Italia (ALI) is an independent non-profit network of legal professionals working at both national and European levels to promote animal protection through:
⚖️ Legal research & expertise
📢 Policy advocacy
🏛 Strategic litigation

Their work fully aligns with WAJ’s mission to advance justice for animals through law, policy, and global collaboration.

At a time when the EU is revisiting key legislative frameworks — from animal welfare to sustainable food systems — this partnership reinforces the importance of legal expertise and coordinated advocacy to drive meaningful change.

➡️Learn more about Animal Law Italia: https://ali.ong/

👉Discover WAJ partners: https://lnkd.in/d3GD5RiH

🔗WAJ is proud to be part of ALI partners: https://ali.ong/chi-siamo/

✨ We look forward to impactful collaboration ahead — contributing to stronger, science-based and justice-driven policies for animals in Europe and beyond.

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