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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

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

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

JAKARTA—Campaigners from the Dog Meat-Free Indonesia coalition warn that millions of global tourists could be at risk of exposure to the deadly rabies virus spread by the county’s illegal dog and cat meat trade. The latest evidence concerning rabies risk comes in the form of a rabies-positive dog

THIMPHU—Humane Society International—in a joint project with the Department of Livestock, Ministry of Agriculture and Forest, Royal Government of Bhutan—has conducted its second dog population survey in Bhutan since 2009, when the country’s National Dog Population Management and Rabies Control

SaladStop!, Asia’s leading healthy food chain, is joining the global cage-free movement with a commitment to use exclusively cage-free eggs in its supply chain by 2025. This will apply to eggs in a shell as well as eggs that are processed or used as ingredients. This pledge applies to all SaladStop

Mauritius—The government of the paradise holiday island of Mauritius is suspending a brutal cull of thousands of dogs as part of a partnership agreement with animal campaigners Humane Society International which sees the charity open the island’s first dedicated spay and neuter clinic, to sterilise

SINGAPORE—Grand Hyatt Singapore and Andaz Singapore announced their commitment to switch to a 100-percent cage-free egg (shell and liquid) supply chain by 2025 or earlier. Humane Society International, one of the world’s largest animal protection organizations, welcomes this announcement and praises

LONDON— Ahead of the 67th meeting of the International Whaling Commission which begins next month in Florianópolis, Brazil, Humane Society International is urging all whale-friendly nations to stand united against Japan’s outrageous attempt to bring back killing whales for profit. Humane Society

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner is earning praise for signing legislation to restrict the intrastate sale of ivory and rhino horn products. House Bill 4843, introduced by Rep. Martin Moylan of Des Plaines, will ensure that Illinois does not contribute to the illegal wildlife trade. The Humane Society of

SÃO PAULO—Carrefour, Brazil’s leading food retailer, has announced it will sell exclusively cage-free eggs at its supermarkets throughout Brazil, becoming the first supermarket company in the country to make this commitment. Carrefour operates almost 650 stores throughout Brazil and will complete

JAKARTA— Campaigners with the Dog Meat-Free Indonesia coalition are celebrating a major breakthrough in their efforts to end the brutally cruel dog and cat meat trades, following a national government pledge to ban the trades. The DMFI comprising local and international groups Animal Friends Jogja

WASHINGTON–Music mogul Simon Cowell is supporting animal charity Humane Society International’s bid to close down a dog meat farm in South Korea and rescue the more than 200 dogs and puppies caged inside who would otherwise be killed and eaten. The dogs spend their entire lives in small, barren

The Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International are deeply disturbed by the videos of Zena, a six-year-old tiger, who was performing in a circus act in Magnitogorsk, Russia. The video, which can be found online, shows disturbing footage of Zena being forced to jump through

LONDON—Eighty-three animal charities from across the world, including Humane Society International, Change for Animals Foundation, the Jane Goodall Institute, FOUR PAWS, and Animals Asia, have called for stronger action by governments to tackle the significant threat of rabies posed by the brutal

SEOUL—Humane Society International is celebrating a successful end to its campaign in South Korea to abolish the use of beagles in long-term testing of pesticides. This follows an announcement by the country’s pesticide authority that it will join the United States, European Union, India, Canada and

TOKYO—On Monday, September 17th, the Japanese Coalition for Animal Welfare and Humane Society International hosted a Citizen Forum to build momentum toward the forthcoming revision of the Act on Welfare and Management of Animals (Animal Welfare Act). The forum addressed the challenges in

FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil—Reacting to the news that the International Whaling Commission has rejected Japan’s comprehensive attack on the global moratorium on commercial whaling, Kitty Block, President of animal charity Humane Society International said, “It is an immense relief that the IWC’s moral

FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil—On the third day of the 67th annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Florianopolis, Brazil, the Commission adopted two resolutions, focused on recognizing the crucial role of whales in ecosystems, and mitigating the threat of anthropogenic (human-caused) noise