An Al Jazeera video explores the tough, cruel lives of Indonesian “monkey masters” and the chained animals they train to wear dolls masks, pull carts, perform tricks and beg for money in Jakarta’s “Monkey Village.” Read More »
A political party led by a former guerilla fighter in Northern Iraq’s Kurdistan region has set out to rehabilitate the image of the donkey — one of the Middle East’s most abused and ridiculed animals. Read More »
Omega the chimpanzee used to serve customers at a cafe in Lebanon. But sometimes they’d get him drunk, causing him to get aggressive and attack them — so he was sold to a small, decrepit zoo.
Now animal rights campaigners are campaigning to get the Middle Eastern country to conform with international animal welfare regulations to give animals like Omega some protection from cruelty and abuse, reports CNN’s Arwa Damon.
Voters in Switzerland have overwhelmingly rejected proposals to give legal rights to animals in a referendum. Read More »