There were 2,637,578 uses of animals in laboratories in Great Britain in 2024. This is a meagre 2% decrease from 2023, and fails to meet either public expectations or scientific potential, and leaves ...

The cost of rehoming animals after their use in laboratories can now be paid for with grant money from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), after a change in policy came into effect on ...

We applaud the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) decision to stop funding new research grant applications which only use animal testing. The announcement, made by Acting NIH Deputy Director for ...

Bloomberg Investigates’ documentary on the trafficking of monkeys from Cambodia to the United States, has won the 2025 Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Documentary. ‘The Dirty Business of Monkey ...

Prime Video España has today given worldwide release to ‘Infiltrada en el Búnker’ (Undercover Inside the Bunker), a documentary on the unlawful abuse and widespread animal suffering exposed at the ...

Several of Parliament’s most active and committed supporters of animal welfare, from across the political spectrum, joined us in the House of Commons to learn how a number of outdated and unnecessary ...

We have published groundbreaking analysis which exposes the dangers of force-feeding animals during scientific tests. Gavage – which involves forcibly inserting a tube, typically made of metal, down ...

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced new initiatives aimed at reducing the use of animals in NIH-funded research by accelerating the development and adoption of human-based ...

Cruelty Free International welcomes major shift towards humane, modern approaches to drug development and testing The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a new roadmap to reduce and ...

The Humane Cosmetics Act has been reintroduced in the House of Representatives to end the use of animal testing for cosmetics in the U.S. and prohibit the sale of any cosmetic product that has been ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has finally restored a degree of transparency to its reporting of animals used in experiments, which reveals a meagre 1% fall in 2023 – and an alarming 9% ...

Throughout ‘the year of the election’ – as 2024 was widely known – we were working with politicians and decision-makers to keep animal testing on the agendas of governments around the world. We began ...