Here we want to give a short overview of the International Animal Rights Conference's concept. Hopefully, this will help you decide whether you should participate in the conference and hopefully also help understand why we have made certain decisions in the planning process.
The goal of the International Animal Rights Conference 2025 is to provide a platform for people active in the animal rights movement and those interested in learning more about animal rights. The conference should function as a networking platform for animal rights activists and present current animal rights views. One main aspect is also the practical animal rights work. Therefore, we have decided to provide/organize the following:
The global animal rights movement has many different facets. There are numerous strategies for getting to a society free of animal exploitation: abolitionist, reformist, vegan outreach, direct action, institutional, grassroots, single issue, total liberation, and many more slogans are used to describe the different approaches.
The International Animal Rights Conference wants to be a platform where representatives of all these different approaches can get together and exchange their ideas. It is the goal to get many different ideas represented because only a critical discourse will allow the animal rights movement to move forward and develop strategies that will get us closer to animal liberation.
The conference's organization team will not exclude any approaches from the conference, as long as these have animal liberation as the goal and do not involve domination, exploitation or discrimination against humans based on arbitrary distinctions such as gender, ethnicity, skin color, sexual orientation, religion, or belief.
Please keep in mind that we choose our speakers, stalls, and sponsors to the best of our knowledge and belief. Our team carefully reviews all applications and pays attention to obvious attitudes and public statements by the respective person/organization. However, it is impossible for us to check the full content of the presentations beforehand or to find out every problematic issue of a person/organization. If doubts arise during the application process or after acceptance, the orga team reserves the right to request explicit questions and statements from the person or organization concerned and to reconsider their decision.
Since the conference's content lives from the people who want to offer their ideas, it might happen in some years that a certain approach might be represented more than others. It is the goal to balance these various approaches, but this, of course, depends on the amount of offered contributions. We try to keep the topics and the people presenting them as diverse as possible. Especially, we welcome applications by BiPoC, queer people, women, people with disabilities, and all other people who are underrepresented in our community. Please contact us if you want to offer an aspect that was not well represented in the previous years: call for contribution.
When we organized the conference for the first time, we searched for a while for an appropriate location for the international animal rights conference. Since we did not want to organize just another regional animal rights conference where mostly participants from close-by areas would attend, we needed a truly international location that provides that basis for bringing animal rights advocates from various countries together. We believe that Luxembourg is such a location since this small country in the heart of Europe does hot have a large animal rights community itself and since this multilingual region is very international.