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November 7, 2013
China to Phase Out Mandatory Cosmetics Animal Testing
HSI and The HSUS Be Cruelty-Free campaign welcomed the announcement that from June 2014, China plans to remove its mandatory animal test requirements for domestically manufactured cosmetic products.
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October 8, 2013
Plans for Korea's First Centre for Alternatives to Animal Testing Welcomed by HSI
Korea is to develop its first national centre of excellence for the development and validation of alternatives to animal testing, which will dramatically improve the country's ability to implement cutting-edge science.
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September 9, 2013
Testing Without Animals a Step Closer to Reality
The U.S. FDA and pharmaceutical industry proposed a new initiative to improve the safety of medicines and move away from animal testing.
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March 6, 2013
Non-Animal Tests
Advanced alternative, non-animal testing approaches represent the very latest techniques that science has to offer to ensure the safety of new cosmetic products and ingredients.
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February 25, 2013
Enquanto a Europa proíbe a venda de cosméticos testados em animais, diretores da LUSH e HSI pedem que a indústria de beleza brasileira acabe com a crueldade dos cosméticos
O Co-Fundador e Diretor da LUSH Cosméticos Mark Constantine e Andrew Rowan, Diretor e Presidente da HSI, escreveram uma carta aberta para pedir a indústria global de cosméticos para que acabem com a experimentação animal de uma vez por todas.
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February 25, 2013
As Europe Bans Sale of Animal-Tested Cosmetics, LUSH and HSI CEOs Call for Global End to Cosmetics Cruelty
As the European Union prepared to finally ban the sale of newly animal-tested cosmetics on 11 March 2013 LUSH & Humane Society International sent an open letter to the global cosmetics industry calling on it to abandon animal testing once and for all.
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February 1, 2013
HSI's Be Cruelty-Free Campaign Makes Progress in Korea
HSI's Be Cruelty-Free Campaign Director, Troy Seidle, recently visited Korea for an intensive series of governmental and corporate meetings and public awareness events aimed at building support for legislation to ban the use of animals for cosmetic testing.
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January 2, 2013
HSI’s Be Cruelty-Free Campaign Hails Israeli Sales Ban on Animal-Tested Cosmetics “Truly Historic”
Humane Society International, on behalf of our partners in the global Be Cruelty-Free campaign to end cosmetics animal testing, cautiously welcomed the enactment of a new law banning the sale of animal-tested cosmetics in Israel.
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January 1, 2013
End Animal Testing Campaign Progress - 2013
A list of HSI's "End Animal Testing" campaign results in 2013.
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December 20, 2012
End Animal Testing 2012 Campaign Victories and Milestones
A list of HSI's "End Animal Testing" campaign victories and milestones in 2012.
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December 6, 2012
Shoppers Urged to Celebrate a Cruelty-Free Christmas
Choose Cruelty Free, Humane Research Australia and Humane Society International are calling on the Australian Government to follow the lead of the European Union in introducing legislation ensuring that no cosmetic shall be imported into, sold or manufactured in Australia if the final product or its ingredients have been tested on animals.
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November 16, 2012
Lush Cosmetics Awards Humane Society International Prize for ‘Outstanding’ Work to End Cruel and Outdated Animal Testing for Pesticides
HSI received £40,000 for being selected to win in the lobbying category for leadership of a successful two-year campaign that dramatically reduced animal-testing requirements under Europe’s new regulations for non-food pesticides.
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November 14, 2012
HSI Praises EU Health Commissioner-Designate’s Comments on Europe’s 2013 Ban on Sales of Animal-Tested Cosmetics
HSI/EU welcomed European Union Health Commissioner-Designate Tonio Borg's endorsement for the full implementation of the March 2013 ban on sales of animal-tested cosmetics.
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November 8, 2012
HSI India: Pledging to ‘Be Cruelty-Free’ This Diwali is as Easy as Giving a Missed Call
Pledging to Be Cruelty-Free by avoiding animal-tested cosmetics just got easier for billions of Indians celebrating Diwali this year.
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November 6, 2012
HSI Calls for Overhaul of REACH Data Requirements to Cut Needless Animal Testing
HSI has issued an urgent call for the European Commission to revise information requirements prescribed under its REACH chemicals law to substantially reduce animal testing while maintaining the same high level of regulatory scrutiny.
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October 25, 2012
FIAPO Joins Forces with HSI's Be Cruelty-Free Campaign to End Cosmetics Animal Testing in India
The Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations (FIAPO), a national collective of animal protection organisations in India, has become a formal partner of HSI's Be Cruelty-Free campaign to end animal testing for cosmetics in India.
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October 24, 2012
New Cell Test Will Help Save Rabbits From Severe Eye Irritation Experiments
The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), an economic alliance of 34 industrialized countries, has adopted a new validated non-animal test method that can be used to asses chemicals for severe eye irritation and corrosion instead of subjecting rabbits to having chemicals dripped in their eyes.
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October 23, 2012
U.S. Poll Shows Consumers Want Cosmetics to be Cruelty-Free
Three out of four women in the United States consider it important that the cosmetics products they buy are labeled “cruelty-free,” and would buy a cruelty-free product in preference to one without a cruelty-free label.
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October 23, 2012
Costs of Animal and Non-Animal Testing
Some animal tests take months or years to conduct and analyze, at a cost of hundreds of thousands--and sometimes millions--of dollars per substance examined.
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October 22, 2012
Pesticide Animal Testing
HSI is helping to re-write pesticide testing regulations around the world
