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Animal Rights In The European Constitution 2003-05-15
Today, RescuePet received the following letter from the 'People for Animal Rights Germany' organisation. I urge you to click on the banner above and sign their on-line petition for the inclusion of animal rights in the European Constitution. Dear colleagues and friends, not much time is left and we kindly urge you to make every effort to achieve the inclusion of ANIMAL WELFARE into the EU Constitution. As you may know representatives of the EU member states and all the states that will join the European Union in 2004 and 2007 are working in the so called EU Convention to draft an EU Constitution, which shall be passed at he end of 2003 in Rom. A first draft of the Constitution, which did not include animal welfare, was already presented in February. Three amendments to incorporate animal welfare as an union objective are already presented to the Presidium by two members of the Convention. Until the end of May the Presidium and the members of the Convention will agree on a second draft. You can imagine that most of the Convention members don't think animal welfare has to become an union objective. And that's exactly the point where we have to raise our voices to convince the Convention members, that animal welfare has to become an union objective in the Constitution.
How can you help, which efforts can you make? **We prepared everything** What is left for you to do is the following: Please have a look at www.animals-constitution.info. There you find a petition to sign and all the information you need to forward this campaign. Please support this campaign by installing the banner on your website Please make as many people as possible sign the petition. Please decide to be listed up as a participating organisation on the homepage www.animals-constitution.info (you find the list when you click the left button at the top of the website, after you have chosen the language). Why the petitons are so urgently needed? The petitions are the most important mean to attract the Convention's attention. A first batch of the petition letters will be handed over to the Presidium of the Convention at the End of May - but the project will continue to the Governmental Conference, which will take place in autumn. Each petition is supporting the demand of inclusion Animal Welfare into the EU Constitution. Each state should be presented by a representative number of signed petitions. As you see on the website, many EU states haven't yet sent a sufficient number of petitions. There is not much time left to change it. We ask you with insistence to support the incorporation of Animal Welfare in the EU Constitution and to join the campaign. We would be happy to welcome you as a participating organisation on the website. Please contact us if you have any questions: We are looking forward to receiving your answer at your earliest convenience. Kind regards Dr. Christiane Cronjaeger Matthias Boller Fon +49 6751 950 391 Fax +49 6751 950 392 People for Animal Rights Germany Menschen fuer Tierrechte - Bundesverband der Tierversuchsgegner e.V.
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