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MONTH: June 2007

Universal Declaration wins key preliminary to U.N. approval

 

PARIS--The 169-nation World Organization for Animal Health (Office International des Epizooties) on May 25, 2007 ratified the present edition of the Univ-ersal Declaration on Animal Wel-fare, including recognition of animals' sentience.

The World Society for the Protection of Animals and ancestral bodies have sought since 1952 to win United Nations approval of various versions of the Universal Declaration, which evolved out of documents drafted for presentation to the League of Nations in 1924 and 1926.

If approved by the U.N., the Universal Declaration would become international law. OIE ratification is regarded as a critical preliminary to placing the declaration before the U.N., which has not yet reviewed any of the drafts. Created by the League of Nations in 1920, the World Organization for Animal Health was among the few surviving League projects that were moved to the U.N. when it formed in 1945.

`ANIMAL PEOPLE extensively reviewed the history and content of the Universal Declaration in "Compromise & the Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare," July/August 2005.

A petition in support of the declaration is online at <www.animalsmatter.org>.