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“The Comune of Palermo’s Regulation is a joke”, claims IHP
05/08/2021 - IHP President Richichi: “Two horses collapsing in just a few days is just not acceptable in a civilised city. Horse-drawn tourist carriages must be abolished, and we are willing to act here as we have in other cities.”
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Horse-drawn tourist carriages – horse collapses in Palermo
27/07/2021 - A regulation covering the service of public transport in horse-drawn carriages which provides no proper parameters, or the minimum of safeguards for the welfare of the animals, seems to us to be a grave lacuna which in and of itself creates the very circumstances to allow what happened in Palermo
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NGOs call to stop the imports of cruelly produced horsemeat
20/07/2021 - On 7 July, Eurogroup for Animals and Animal Welfare Foundation/Tierschutzbund Zürich (AWF/TSB) met with the European Commission to discuss the systematic violations of EU animal welfare and traceability requirements in the production of horsemeat imported into the EU.
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ZAMPY LIFE: a press conference dedicated to the issues of stray dogs, abandonment and mistreatment of animals
14/07/2021 - coming soon
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Ihp consigns 35,000 signatures to the Florence City Council to demand a stop to carriages in the historic centre
05/07/2021 - Coming Soon
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Edoardo Stoppa sostiene la battaglia di IHP contro le carrozze
26/06/2021 - coming soon
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IHP launches a petition to ban horse drawn carriages in Florence
21/06/2021 - IHP: petition to stop the horse-drawn tourist carriages in Florence
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Fixplan, the drug produced by torturing horses: 4 European parliamentarians ask the minister Speranza to deny its authorization
16/06/2021 - Thanks to the initiative of Eleonora Evi, deputy at the European Parliament(MEP) for Europa Verde, four MEPs wrote to the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza requesting to deny the authorization for the marketing in Italy of Fixplan, a drug produced by the Argentine company Syntex through the torture of pregnant mares and used in intensive farming to maximize meat production.
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HORSE RUNS INTO LAMORGESE’S CAR, IHP: ‘CARRIAGES, AN UNACCEPTABLE FORM OF EXPLOITATION IN 2021’
14/06/2021 - "This afternoon a horse - used in the historic centre of Florence to pull tourist carriages - ran into two cars, one of which belongs to the Minister of the Interior, Luciana Lamorgese.  The accident, which fortunately did not lead to injuries, highlights the conditions under which these animals are used. Carriages are a form of exploitation that is no longer acceptable in 2021.  [...]"
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La storia di Grifo, puledro cieco simbolo di speranza
07/06/2021 - coming soon
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