We demand that the catholic universities of Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) immediately halt their experiments on monkeys. These animals are subjected to horrifying neurologic experiments, which cause tremendous suffering and agony.

If a manned mission to Mars ever takes place, the human pilots will be outside Earth's protective magnetic field for several months, unprotected from solar radiation. Little research has been done on this sort of long-term exposure to low doses of radiati

It was supposed to be a "bloodless bullfight," a dangerous dance between a pirouetting matador and an enraged bull that would not end in death. But this time-honored Portuguese tradition capping a religious festival was anything but bloodless.

No child should be sentenced to death. And no mother should go through the anguish of burying a child who has been executed... Add your name to end child executions?... Amnesty International is part of the World Coalition against the Death Penalty.

On September 22, Mohammad Othman was arrested and detained by Israeli soldiers on the Allenby Bridge Crossing, the border from Jordan to Palestine. He was returning from a trip to Norway, where he was advocating for Palestinian human rights. Ask U.S. Pres

Because of caring people and a caring company, a terminally ill little Green Forest girl was flown home Friday by air ambulance from M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, so she can spend her last days surrounded by the people who love her most.

Save the lowly Tree Frogs in the Hawaiian Islands. There is no scientific evidence that they're detrimental or evasive to other species in the area except the some people a 'noise issue'It's immoral to get rid of a species by the musical sounds it makes.

The industry trade group National Chicken Council declares each September National Chicken Month in an attempt to increase chicken consumption. But here at The HSUS, we think it's a pretty fitting time to celebrate these incredible birds instead.

"Thinking Like a Chicken: Farm Animals and the Feminine Connection" by Karen Davis is from ANIMALS AND WOMEN: FEMINIST THEORETICAL EXPLORATIONS, ed. by Carol J. Adams and Josephine Donovan. Copyright 1995 by Duke University Press.

Helping The Climate and Wildlife - This tract located in Louisiana's Tensas (pronounced Tensaw) River Basin, is the first project in The Nature Conservancy's voluntary carbon offset program.