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Two things to remember as the World Court rules on Japan’s whaling (IFAW – International Fund for Animal Welfare)

(Source: IFAW – International Fund for Animal Welfare) I check my iPhone during my layover at Heathrow Airport en route to the Netherlands. The media coverage has already started down undah’.  The speculation has been building for months — whether from government officials, learned legal experts, hopeful whale huggers or the loud but dwindling chorus of supporters for high-seas “scientific” whaling.    On Monday morning, March 31st, at 10 a.m. European time, the 15 justices of the World Court, aka the International Court of Justice or ICJ, will file into the Great Hall of Justice of the ornate “Peace Palace” in The Hague, NL to deliver their judgment in the case of Australia…

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About The Politics of Species

The assumption that humans are cognitively and morally superior to other animals is fundamental to social democracies and legal systems worldwide. It legitimises treating members of other animal species as inferior to humans. The last few decades have seen a growing awareness of this issue, as evidence continues to show that individuals of many other species have rich mental, emotional and social lives. Bringing together leading experts from a range of disciplines, this volume identifies the key barriers to a definition of moral respect that includes nonhuman animals.

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Themes

  • The Road to Respectful Coexistence

  • Carnal Desires

  • An Animal Bill of Rights?

  • Turning a Whale into a Killer

  • Apeism and Racism

  • What is a Person?

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