Whistle-blowers: 36 associations and trade unions are calling out senators

On Wednesday 19 January, while senators were getting ready to discuss the bill aiming to improve protection for whistle-blowers, 36 organisations from civil society, comprising of associations, trade unions, and whistle-blowers, gathered together before the Senate to call upon senators to clarify and reinforce protection measures for whistle-blowers in France.

The squeals of Angora rabbits: One Voice is blowing the whistle in 16 towns in France on 22 and 23 January 2022

One Voice is organising a coordinated national effort among its activists in sixteen French towns in the last weekend of January, to warn of the fate of Angora rabbits whose fur is torn out multiple times a year for the vanity and comfort of certain humans. They howl during the plucking process, and flaps of skin are often ripped off them along with the fur, documented by our investigations done several years apart for six years (in 2016, 2018, and 2020). After disappointments relating to this case in the past in the face of justice, the association relaunched, with new information, two legal proceedings: a negligence complaint before the European Commission and a preliminary appeal to the Minister of Agriculture.