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April 17, 2018
South Korean animal groups unite in supporting the inclusion of animal protection in a revised constitution
Animal protection groups in South Korea came together to support a historic bill by President Moon Jae-in to revise the country’s constitution, including recognition of animal protection for the first time.
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April 17, 2018
동물권 개헌 촉구 기자회견
헌법에 동물권 명시를 위해 발족한 8개 단체의 연대체, 개헌을 위한 동물권 행동(이하: 개헌동동)은 지난 3월 20일 대통령 개헌안이 발표되던 역사적 순간의 감격을 잊지 못한다. 대통령 개헌안을 통해 대한민국 건국 이래 처음으로 동물보호에 대한 국가적 의지가 확인되었기 때문이다.
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April 5, 2018
Asian food industry leaders put animal welfare on their agenda
Humane Society International hosted Indonesia’s first corporate animal welfare roundtable, bringing together leading food service, restaurant and hospitality companies to discuss the global movement towards higher animal welfare supply chains, specifically with respect to cage-free eggs.
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April 3, 2018
Victory! India bans the import of seal fur and skins
In a landmark decision that will spare the lives of thousands of seals from slaughter by commercial sealing industries, India's Directorate General of Foreign Trade banned the import of skins of seals.
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April 2, 2018
South Korea revises chemical law to require prioritization of “vertebrate animal alternative testing”
South Korea’s National Assembly passed a bill revising the Act on the Registration and Evaluation of Chemical Substances (K-REACH) to require companies, the country’s Ministry of Environment and its subsidiaries to prioritize adopting alternative methods to animal testing.
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April 2, 2018
동물실험 이전에 동물대체시험을 우선한 화평법 개정안 통과
동물보호단체 휴메인 소사이어티 인터내셔널(Humane Society International, 이하 HSI)은 지난 30일 화학물질의 등록 및 평가 등에 관한 법률(이하, 화평법) 개정안 통과를 환영한다.
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April 2, 2018
Japan ends year-long pesticide poisoning tests on beagle dogs after study finds them pointless
HSI welcomed the decision of Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to abolish its requirement to conduct year-long poisoning tests on beagle dogs for pesticides such as weed killer.
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April 2, 2018
研究により農薬評価への貢献がないことが判明したのち、日本が、農薬におけるビーグル犬を用いた1年間の毒性試験の要件を廃止
ヒューメイン・ソサイエティー・インターナショナル(Humane Society International, HSI)は、除草剤等の農薬におけるビーグル犬を用いた1年間の毒性試験の要件を廃止するという日本の農林水産省の決断を歓迎する。
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March 28, 2018
First collaboration to promote Clean Meat in India takes off
Humane Society International/India and the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, one of the country’s premier institutions for scientific research, joined together to develop and promote a laboratory-grown meat in India.
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March 20, 2018
Court rules in favour of the cats in the Kondhwa hoarding case
In a landmark judgement, the Court of the First Class Judicial Magistrate, in the case of cat hoarding in Pune, handed over the custody of the cats to an animal welfare organization and allowed them to put the cats up for adoption.