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The primary goals of the L.I.A. are to promote veganism and abolish speciesism. More broadly, the L.I.A. campaigns against all forms of legal discrimination based on species criteria

It therefore advocates that, alongside natural persons and legal entities, non-human animals should enjoy legal personality specifically adapted to their means, through which they would benefit from fundamental rights enabling them, in particular, to lead a peaceful and serene existence free from all forms of precariousness, suffering and commercial, medical or other anthropogenic exploitation.

Granting essential rights to animals

Based on the model of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which should be extended to sentient beings with non-human legal personality, the association demands that non-human animals be granted six universal rights :

  • The right to live ;
  • The right not to be imprisoned ;
  • The right not to be subjected to constraints and treatment incompatible with their agency ;
  • The right not to be property, and therefore not to be exploited ;
  • The right to be a non-human person and therefore not to be traded ;
  • The right to live in a protected ecosystem adapted to their natural needs.

Furthermore, the association also campaigns to give other animals a place in our societies and to take into account their agency by incorporating their interests and preferences into our laws and institutions through the granting of positive rights.

This means rethinking society and our laws, taking into account the fact that humans are not the only beings living in this world. We must make society inclusive for as many individuals as possible, human and non-human, and to do so, we must get rid of the systemic social structures that underpin and perpetuate oppression, including speciesism.

Moreover, the L.I.A. declares its solidarity with all forms of oppression and discrimination that affect all sentient beings, human and non-human. It is in this spirit that the L.I.A. joins all social struggles for liberation and works to forge intersectional links between all oppressed people with whom it identifies.

Finally, the association also advocates for the protection and enshrinement of:

  • the right to freedom of expression (Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) ;
  • the right to freedom of association (Article 20 of the UDHR);
  • the right to freedom to receive and impart information (Articles 26 and 27 of the UDHR)

In short, for the existence and enshrinement of a pluralistic democracy where political opinions can be expressed without fear of surveillance, oppression and censorship by the political authorities.