Animal Rights: Outside the Western World

[Tim Gier]

Animal welfare – a long way from home

In many ways 2011 was the so-called ‘year of revolution.’ These revolutions spread beyond borders; encompassed social, political and economic crises and brought about change in the world. In Pakistan, social bodies and activists hailed the bills and resolutions that were much called for in a country where the ideology of ‘rights’ remain undecipherable.

Taking cue from this wind of change, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) began working on a manual entailing the significance of animal rights, in an attempt to formulate laws to protect the ‘unprotected’, for the first time in several years. The manual includes an elaborate account of policies for protecting domestic and working animals.

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