The Convention on International Trade in Endangered ... trade of wildlife and wildlife products—everything from live animals and plants to food, leather goods, and trinkets.

In the upcoming year, the Society will continue raising its visibility with community leaders at the local, state, and national level to discuss relevant topics, such as animal welfare public ...

The Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals, also known as the Bonn Convention, was adopted on 23 June 1979. As of 1 December 2017 the Convention on Migratory Species had 126 Parties. The CMS ...

The Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict was adopted at The Hague (Netherlands) in 1954 in the wake of massive destruction of cultural heritage during the ...

The European Union has voted to ease protection rules for wolves – whose numbers have been rising in Europe – making it ...

Refugees are in extremely vulnerable circumstances, lacking the protection of their own countries and facing immense challenges to their safety and well-being. The 1951 Refugee Convention, ...

Members of the Bern Convention, tasked with the protection of wildlife in Europe as well as some ... A trio of campaign groups -- Humane World for Animals Europe, Eurogroup for Animals and the ...

On the 14th of May 1954, in the aftermath of the destruction wrought by the Second World War, the international community came together under the auspices of UNESCO to adopt the Convention for the ...

The protection of cultural property during armed conflict is based on the principle that damage to the cultural property of any people means, in the words of the 1954 Hague Convention, "damage to the ...