Vegan Rights Conference Opening: Denmark, September 2024
Welcome to our conference and thank you for making time this weekend to join us.
In February this year, a court here in Denmark, confirmed…
Denmark Victory for Vegans: Article 9 and How to Start Using It
My top ten points on what animal rights and vegan advocacy organisations should know about Article 9…
Ontario Human Rights Tribunal Rules Vegans are not a Creed
The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) has ruled that vegans do not qualify as a creed under the Ontario Human Rights Code. Lawyers for Adam Knauff will…
Vegan Children’s Rights in the Context of New UN Guidance
Vegan Children’s Rights and the Children’s Rights Approach to the Environment with a Special Focus on Climate Change
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child will today (18-09-2023) launch new authoritative guidance (General comment 26) on…
Human Rights Tribunal in Ontario, Canada Considers Veganism
I am honoured to have been called on to provide information and give evidence at the Human Rights Tribunal in Ontario, Canada today.
The case concerns firefighter Adam…
Discrimination on the Grounds of a Belief in Climate Change
The 2009 British case of Grainger plc v Nicholson discussed whether a belief in the urgent need to cut carbon emissions could be a protected characteristic for the purposes of equality law. The Claimant explained that their sincere belief in the…