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• 2016 03 16 20 Years Tier im Recht – TIR celebrates its anniversary and bestows TIR Animal Law Award for the first time

  ... has been committed to a continuous improvement of the legal protection for animals since 1996. We have become the largest animal welfare organization in Europe with a focus on legal aspects of the human-animal relationship. With our resolute groundwork, we have achieved a great deal in the last twenty years for sustainable animal protection and have established ourselves as a competency center for animals in law, ethics, and society. Last night, during his official speech at the anniversary celebration in Zurich, Jörg Röthlisberger, President of the Foundation Board, acknowledged TIR's achiev...

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• 2024 10 22 TIR gives a talk at Animal Rights Conference in Albania

  ...ion Animals Need Me to talk about their experiences in assessing criminal cases involving animal welfare. The conference, initiated and organised by Animals Need Me, was held at the Rogner Congress Hotel in Tirana and the talks were simultaneously translated into Albanian and English for the approximately 100 participants. The aim of the conference was to support the local authorities with expertise in order to effectively investigate and sanction animal offences and to encourage an exchange between those involved in animal welfare. The audience included public prosecutors, police officers, ve...

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• Federal Constitution

  ... federal government to legislate in the field of animal welfare. Hence, animal welfare is a constitutional principle and its objectives may therefore restrict fundamental rights expressly guaranteed by the Constitution, such as personal freedom, freedom of faith and conscience, freedom of scientific research, economic freedom, and the guarantee of property rights. A truly unique constitutional provision is article 120 paragraph 2 FC which stipulates that the federal government must take into account, among other things, the dignity of the creature, which also includes animal dignity, when adop...

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• 2025 11 03 Delegation from Singapore's veterinary authority visits TIR

  ...tional Parks Board) to Zurich. After a brief introduction by Managing Director Dr Gieri Bolliger, TIR lawyer Bianca Körner gave the guests a presentation on the concept and special features of Swiss animal welfare law. The focus was on the enforcement of animal welfare law and the legal training requirements for handling animals. Various TIR projects were also presented, such as the criminal case database and the legal information service, as well as the general working methods of TIR. Chantal Stucki from the Zurich City Police's Environmental and Animal Welfare Offences Unit then gave a prese...

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• Cantonal Dog Laws

  ...mans from dogs. Due to the high density of regulations within Switzerland, it is important that every dog owner knows the legislation of the canton they live in as well as that of other cantons, because they are subject to the law of the canton they are in at the moment, even if they are only passing through.In order to facilitate orientation in this legislative jungle, TIR has compiled the current cantonal laws below (we cannot guarantee for the listed cantonal laws to be fully up to date or complete). AargauAppenzell Outer RhodesAppenzell Inner RhodesBasel-CountryBasel-CityBerneFribourg Gene...

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• 2018 06 14 TIR supports "Stop Live Transport" campaign

  ...inents; this is due to an absurd subsidy system that creates incentives for live transport. In European countries, there are a number of provisions for the protection of animals for slaughter and fattening during transport. For example, regular watering and feeding are required and the animals must be given time for rest. However, investigations into live transports by animal welfare organizations like Animals' Angels show that the provisions in place are being systematically violated. Many animals are exported overseas to other continents, meaning that the animals oftentimes spend days on the...

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• 2018 06 21 TIR supports the (anti) factory farming initiative

  ...nitiative's request to abolish factory farming in Switzerland. June 21, 2018 On June 12, 2018, animal welfare, animal rights and environmental organizations gathered at the Waisenhausplatz in Bern to launch the initiative calling for the abolition of factory farming in Switzerland. Representatives of various organizations like Tier im Fokus (TIF), die Grüne Partei Schweiz (Switzerland's green party), Greenpeace and Fondation Franz Weber delivered speeches on the topic.The popular initiative demands that the dignity of animals be consistently protected in agricultural animal husbandry which ult...

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• 2016 08 10 TIR files complaint against Circus Royal for animal dignity violation

  ...ed an immediate end to the lion act. August 10, 2016 The Swiss Animal Welfare Act protects not only the well-being of animals but also their dignity. Dignity protection, which is also enshrined in the Constitution, grants animals an inherent worth and implies that they do not primarily exist for human interests but for their own sake. That is why the Animal Welfare Act also protects animals from humiliation and excessive instrumentalization, i.e. from stress that is not necessarily associated with physical pain and suffering. An animal's dignity can only be violated when there are substantial ...

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• 2016 05 31 Animal welfare organizations demand a Swiss ban on the import and transit of hunting trophies

  ...round the world due to its "Big Five" (lions, elephants, rhinos, leopards, and buffalos). Every year, foreign hunters kill over 100'000 wild animals. With appropriate authorization, hunters are usually allowed to bring the animals back home as trophies. Hunting safaris and the collection of hunting trophies are legal, as long as the national laws of the African countries in question and the respective export and import regulations are met, that is, the CITES-permits are granted. Many of the sought-after animal species are subject to protection by the Washington Convention on International Trad...

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• 2017 09 18 TIR at the world premiere of "Citizen Animal"

  ...xplores whether and to what extent animals should be granted civil and other rights. The Stiftung für das Tier im Recht (TIR) is featured in the film and was also present at the premiere. September 18, 2017 The documentary film "Citizen Animal – A Quest for Animal Rights" deals with the often very difficult human-animal relationship and the question whether animals should be granted certain rights. Filmmaker Oliver Kyr and his family traveled across Europe for six months to explore the subject from a philosophical, ethical and legal point of view. The starting point of his research was the Spa...

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