Helping animals speak up: Switzerland was the first country to give constitutional rights to animals, and so it seems fitting that it is home to the world's one and only animal lawyer. Swiss News caught up with Antoine Goetschel in Zurich.

Swiss News › Nbr. 2008, April 2008

Author: Mirza, Faryal

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Helping animals speak up: Switzerland was the first country to give constitutional rights to animals, and so it seems fitting that it is home to the world's one and only animal lawyer. Swiss News caught up with Antoine Goetschel in Zurich.

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If its constitution is to be believed, no one takes animal rights as seriously as Switzerland. The concept of animal rights has been enshrined in the nation's basic law since 1992, a worldwide first.

Shortly thereafter, Canton Zurich took a further huge step for 'animal kind' and established a position for a lawyer to prote...

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