Our achievements

An Open Cages UK representative appears on the BBC along with footage from a Polish fur farm, ahead of parliamentary debate on banning fur importsUnited Kingdom

We organize the conference “The Rise of Industrial Farming in Poland” in the Polish Parliament. 160 people participate in the event including MPs, government officials, scientists, industry experts and representatives of local communitiesPoland

Open Cages and HSI UK hold a protest outside Parliament while it debates the fur imports ban. Labour, the main opposition party, officially backs the banUnited Kingdom

The first cage-free campaign is launched in BelarusBelarus

We co-organize a seminar at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development about the threats of industrial farmingPoland

40 billboards demanding cage-free company policies are installed in Vilnius and Kaunas for three weeksLithuania

A new investigation on Lithuanian fur farms is publishedLithuania

On the 1st day of the Parliamentary session, we organize a protest with dead minks in front of the Lithuanian Parliament urging MPs to stop the fur industryLithuania

Patrick Harvie MSP, leader of the Scottish Green Party, backs our call for a Fur Free BritainUnited Kingdom

Showroom, the biggest Polish online platform for fashion retailers and designers, joins the Fur Free Retailer programPoland

Open Cages Ukraine organizes the first ever animal rights conference in UkraineUkraine

Top chefs take part in a two week outdoor advertising campaign in Estonia standing against the caging of hens by the egg industryEstonia

We ensure that a bill proposing a ban on raising and killing animals for their fur (with a transition period) is registered in parliament and is signed by 19 MPs from different partiesLithuania

Our Food Innovation Summit leads to an international award being granted to an Estonian company to develop innovative meat alternativesEstonia

Our campaign urging Auchan to go cage-free is launchedUkraine

The Plant-Powered Perspectives conference is a smash hit in WarsawPoland

A bill to ban fur farming is introduced into the Estonian ParliamentEstonia

The Danish team launch the dairy campaign ”12 hours with mom”Denmark

Local communities block a farm for over 2 million chickens per year from being built, with the help of Open Cages PolandPoland

Event with the Ministry of Agriculture about animal welfare is co-organized with CIWF and EcodiyaUkraine

Our first corporate meeting is held with supermarket giant TescoUnited Kingdom

The petition for the Parliament to ban fur farming receives more than 28,000 signatures making it the third most signed petition on animal issues in LithuaniaLithuania

Kristina Mering, President of our Estonian branch, is recognized by the President of Estonia as the best volunteer engager/coordinator of the year across the countryEstonia

A bill is introduced to ban mink farming, with three out of nine parties supporting it in the Danish ParliamentDenmark

Local communities block a farm for over 7 million chickens per year with the help of Open Cages PolandPoland

Footage taken on fur farms is released on national televisionUkraine

Local communities block the construction of a farm for over 1.3 million chickens per year with the help of Open Cages PolandPoland

Our Ukraine team hold an eye-catching demonstration against the use of eggs from caged hens during EasterUkraine

The first ever competition announcing the three best restaurants based on their plant-based menus is launched in UkraineUkraine

Local communities block a farm for over 3 million chickens per year with the help of Open Cages PolandPoland

A public debate takes place between the representatives of the main Polish political parties on their own visions of animal protection policy at national and EU levelsPoland

An official petition for the ban of fur farms is started in Estonia to put pressure on the newly elected members of ParliamentEstonia

The first conference on animal law in Ukraine is organized at the Faculty of Law in Taras Shevchenko National University in KievUkraine

Open Cages Ukraine feature on National television raising awareness about the cruelty of live animal exportUkraine

The “Law Seminar on Animal Rights” is co-organized in Chernivtsi City Council with the Ukrainian NGO NebaiduzhiUkraine

Over 350,000 signatures demanding better broiler welfare are handed over to Tesco at their annual stakeholder meeting, together with RSPCAUnited Kingdom

RoślinnieJemy, our institutional plant-based campaign, receives an award as one of the best positive impact start-ups (Startup Pozytywnego Wpływu) listed in the ranking prepared by Kozminski Business Hub and Deloitte PolandPoland

MHP, the last remaining foie gras producer in Ukraine, announces the closure of their foie gras production facilitiesUkraine

The campaign to establish an Animal Rights Ombudsman in Poland is launched. So far more than 15,000 people have signed our online petition to the members of the Polish ParliamentPoland

The first two restaurants in Ukraine commit to stop selling foie grasUkraine

The second round of our campaign against common practices in the dairy industry is released in DenmarkDenmark

Investigation into UK broiler farming released by Open Cages published in The Times, followed by coverage in multiple local and national mediaUnited Kingdom

A letter signed by 25 animal welfare experts condemning Tesco’s poor broiler welfare standards is published. Tesco reacts by introducing a new line of higher welfare chickenUnited Kingdom

As a result of our campaign and with the collaboration of other organisations in Poland (CIWF, ASF, Viva), Tesco commits to stop selling live fish in 2020Poland

Eights foxes are saved following an investigation into a fur farm. We continue to push further for a complete ban in PolandPoland

The Biggest Polish online supermarket Frisco introduces the first ECC policy for broiler chickensPoland

Open Cages Ukraine wins the case to ban animals in Odessa state circusUkraine

The Food Innovation Summit leads to an international award being granted to an Estonian company to develop innovative meat alternativesEstonia

Our team in Russia joins the cage-free campaign against Wyndham HotelsRussia

Our team in Russia launches their first Vegan Challenge with 470 participantsRussia

Our team in Estonia collects more than 5,000 digital signatures against fur farms, making the digital petition the biggest ever in Estonia and triggering a parliamentary debateEstonia

The Plant-Powered Perspectives conference is held in WarsawPoland

Our team in Russia is invited to one of the biggest HoReCa events in Russia Coffee Tea Ru Expo 2020Russia

A permanent ban on moose hunting is achieved in UkraineUkraine

Our team in Russia organises the Vegan Day, which is a free event for vegan challenge participants and mentorsRussia

14,000 signatures are handed in to the Rural Minister of Estonia to ban the live export of animals from Estonia to non-EU countriesEstonia

Our representative from Open Cages Belarus speaks at a round-table discussion in the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia (State Duma), in regards to the “Law enforcement practice under article 245 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: why torturing animals remains unpunished?Russia

Assiettes Végétales joins Anima InternationalFrance