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BAHIA, Brazil—Humane Society International in Brazil has teamed up with four cities in the northeastern state of Bahia—Serrinha, Barroca, Teofilandia and Biritinga—and the local Public Prosecutor Office, to transition all of the meals served at its public school cafeterias to 100 percent plant-based

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has just made history by unanimously approving a citywide ban on fur sales, effective January 2019. San Francisco joins West Hollywood, California, and Berkeley, California, in the U.S., Sao Paulo in Brazil, and India in adopting similar sale or import bans

LONDON—In an interview with The Economist, 1843 Magazine Italian fashion designer Donatella Versace said “Fur? I am out of that. I don’t want to kill animals to make fashion. It doesn’t feel right.” The luxury brand has historically included lots of fur across its ranges, from a variety of species

SEOUL—Today, Humane Society International delivered 10,000 #ScienceWithoutSuffering petition signatures gathered in support of reducing and replacing animal testing for checmicals to National Assembly member Ms. Jeong Ae Han. Since coming into effect in 2015, Korea’s Act on the Registration and

TOKYO—Baseball player and animal lover Yoh Daikan and global animal protection group Humane Society International have come together to call on the Japanese public to protect elephants from the poaching and ivory trafficking epidemic. Yoh, an outfielder with the Yomiuri Giants, one of the

MEDIA DOWNLOADS SEOUL—Straight from the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, U.S. freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy joined the animal rescue team from Humane Society International at a dog meat farm in Gyeonggi-do province where the charity is working to save the more than 80 dogs from slaughter. Gus, who

BRASÍLIA—Senator Gleisi Hoffmann’s report on Federal Bill 70/2014 on cosmetic tests on animals published this week - the World Lab Animal Week - strongly supports a complete ban on testing cosmetic products and ingredients on animals, as well as the sales of cosmetics tested on animals. It proposes

Hopeful news for animals. Shaiith/istock Mexico City/Brussels—Humane Society International has cautiously welcomed the conclusion of negotiations for the modernisation of the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union (EU) and Mexico. A summary of the ‘agreement in principle’ has been released

SANTIAGO—Polling by Cadem consultancy showed that the vast majority of Chileans surveyed (78 percent) oppose animal testing for cosmetics, while 86 percent believe the country should follow the example set by 37 other nations that have enacted laws banning this practice. The poll, commissioned by

Seoul—Animal protection groups in South Korea have come together to support an historic bill by President Moon Jae-in to revise the country’s constitution including recognition of animal protection for the first time. Eight animal groups, including Humane Society International/Korea, have formed the

WASHINGTON—The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has awarded ethical beauty giant Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics its prestigious Henry Spira Corporate Progress Award for 2017 in recognition of the company’s outstanding commitment to cruelty-free. “Lush do not test on animals, do not use

JAKARTA—Humane Society International recently 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

TOKYO—Humane Society International welcomes the March 30 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. In these tests, as many as 32 dogs are fed pesticide-laced

SEOUL—South Korea’s National Assembly last week 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. The

WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF THE KILLING OF DOGS LONDON—Some of the biggest names in acting, music and sports from around the world have come together to sign a letter urging President Joko Widodo of Indonesia to end the brutal slaughter of millions of dogs and cats for the meat trade

MEDIA DOWNLOADS Update, June 26, 2018: The HSI team, including nine veterinarians and disaster responders from HSI/Mexico and HSI/Latin America, arrived in Guatemala on June 16. Over the course of a week, they provided emergency veterinary service to 912 animals, including dogs, cats, chickens

BEIJING—Chinese and international animal campaigners in Beijing have submitted a letter with 235,000 signatures to call for an end to the annual Yulin dog meat festival at which thousands of dogs and cats will be brutally killed and eaten. Humane Society International, Care2, VShine and Capital

BEIJING—Horrifying images from inside a Yulin dog slaughterhouse have been released by Humane Society International, revealing the first disturbing glimpses of preparations for this year’s dog meat festival in China’s Guangxi Autonomous Region. Chinese activists with whom HSI has worked for many

MEDIA DOWNLOADS SEOUL—Fifty dogs on a South Korean dog meat farm have escaped the cooking pot barely a month before the start of the Boknal summer season, during which more than one million dogs are eaten as ‘bosintang’ soup. Animal charity Humane Society International has worked in South Korea for

BUENOS AIRES—In a meeting held between Havanna and officials at Humane Society International, one of the world's leading animal protection organizations, the company announced that it is joining the organization’s global cage-free egg initiative, committing to switch to a 100 percent cage-free egg