United Nations
United Nations
In April 2018, the United Nations awarded our charity, ‘World Protection for Dogs and Cats in the Meat Trade’, Special Consultative Status. We are extremely proud of this achievement and the opportunity it affords us to be a voice for the victims of the dog and cat meat trade; an opportunity to be heard by people who have the power to make real change happen.
The health of all species is at the heart of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and animal welfare is integral to achieving these goals. We aim to inform the UN’s SDG planning and promote the urgent need to bring the horrendous dog and cat meat trade to an end, wherever it exists in the world.
Please support us in calling on the UN to classify all dogs and cats as companion animals, not food.
Our overarching mission is to work with the authorities and NGOs in countries where the dog and cat meat trade exists and to push them to create and enforce animal welfare laws to stop the torture and suffering that our companion animals are forced to endure.
The UN Convention on the Rights of The Child (UNCRC) states that protecting children from violence includes protecting them from witnessing animal abuse.
The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has addressed bullfighting and has condemned Spain’s failure to ban minors’ participation in, or exposure to, bullfighting, citing its potential for physical and mental harm.
The committee also wants governments to deal with the stray dog crisis compassionately.
We plan to lobby them to address the dog and cat meat trade as well.
Contact us
NoToDogMeat Foundation
19 Crawford Street
London
W1H 1PJ
UK
