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Good News for animals – Caracas circus ban
26 July 2017
SHARE THE GOOD NEWS: On July 25, 2017, a regulation approved in 2016, prohibiting animal circuses, bullfights, cockfights and dogfights, and loud fireworks that can frighten animals, came into force in...
Bullfighting ban in Colombia progresses!
30 May 2017
On May 30th, 2017, the bill of the Ministry of the Interior that seeks to ban bullfights in Colombia took an important step in Congress. The Commission VII of the House of Representatives gave its unanimous...
Historic bill to ban bullfights in Colombia launched!
4 May 2017
Following a series of working parties and meetings between officials of the Ministry of the Interior and academics, researchers, jurists, and members of the coalition Colombia Sin Toreo, of which ADI is...
Colombia mobilizes against bullfighting!
19 February 2017
The Colombia Sin Toreo coalition, of which ADI is part, campaigns to support the abolition of bullfighting in Colombia through the process and approval of government legislation. Following meetings...
Colombian Congress given two years to legislate on bullfights.
1 February 2017
In its Judgment C-041/17, published on February 1, 2017, the Constitutional Court emphasized that there is still a shortage of animal protection in Colombia. As Congress has been unable to resolve this...
Help end bullfighting in Colombia!
23 January 2017
ADI and fellow animal protection groups in Colombia, under the coalition Colombia Sin Toreo, are calling on the government to ban bullfighting. A joint letter requesting that a bill be presented and supported...
Say NO to bullfighting in Bogota!
7 September 2015
After the Constitutional Court of Bogota announced that bullfighting should return to the capital of Colombia, after a 3-year hiatus, Animal Defenders International joined with local animal protection...
Attempts to end bullfighting subsidy in Europe
3 December 2014
While Members of the European Parliament debated the budget for the coming year in Strasbourg on 22nd October they had the opportunity to end the subsidy of almost €130 million given to the bullfighting...
