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Support and Implement the Universal Declaration of Animal Rights

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

From fur trapping and farming to the cruelty of dairy, from shooting to meat farming, from animals in circuses to egg farming, and from zoos to testing, humans abuse, use and kill nonhuman animals as if they didn’t matter! Animals do matter! It’s time to change the world for animals!
The Universal Declaration of Animal Rights should ban and seek to end (as far as possible) all unnecessary abuse, use and killing of animals for food, experiments, testing, fur, hunting, trapping, circuses, zoos, blood-sports, racing, clothing, skins, Chinese medicine and cruel training. All perpetrators of animal cruelty laws be punished as severely as if the victim/s were human. We demand that the UK Government pass all of this into law and pressure other countries and the UN to do the same.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

You may wish to sign this petition calling for a similar action: Implement an Animal Bill of Rights protecting all species of animals

Timeline

27 Apr 2021 Petition opened for signatures
4 May 2021 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 4 May 2021

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.