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
Our achievements
2018
March
April
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
June
The first cage-free campaign is launched in BelarusBelarus
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
July
We co-organize a seminar at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development about the threats of industrial farmingPoland
August
A new investigation on Lithuanian fur farms is publishedLithuania
40 billboards demanding cage-free company policies are installed in Vilnius and Kaunas for three weeksLithuania
September
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
Top chefs take part in a two week outdoor advertising campaign in Estonia standing against the caging of hens by the egg industryEstonia
Open Cages Ukraine organizes the first ever animal rights conference in UkraineUkraine
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
October
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 campaign urging Auchan to go cage-free is launchedUkraine
Our Food Innovation Summit leads to an international award being granted to an Estonian company to develop innovative meat alternativesEstonia
The Plant-Powered Perspectives conference is a smash hit in WarsawPoland
November
Local communities block a farm for over 2 million chickens per year from being built, with the help of Open Cages PolandPoland
A bill to ban fur farming is introduced into the Estonian ParliamentEstonia
Our first corporate meeting is held with supermarket giant TescoUnited Kingdom
The Danish team launch the dairy campaign ”12 hours with mom”Denmark
Event with the Ministry of Agriculture about animal welfare is co-organized with CIWF and EcodiyaUkraine
December
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
2019
February
A bill is introduced to ban mink farming, with three out of nine parties supporting it in the Danish ParliamentDenmark
March
Footage taken on fur farms is released on national televisionUkraine
Local communities block a farm for over 7 million chickens per year with the help of Open Cages PolandPoland
April
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
Our Ukraine team hold an eye-catching demonstration against the use of eggs from caged hens during EasterUkraine
Local communities block the construction of a farm for over 1.3 million chickens per year with the help of Open Cages PolandPoland
May
Open Cages Ukraine feature on National television raising awareness about the cruelty of live animal exportUkraine
The first conference on animal law in Ukraine is organized at the Faculty of Law in Taras Shevchenko National University in KievUkraine
An official petition for the ban of fur farms is started in Estonia to put pressure on the newly elected members of ParliamentEstonia
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
June
The “Law Seminar on Animal Rights” is co-organized in Chernivtsi City Council with the Ukrainian NGO NebaiduzhiUkraine
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
Over 350,000 signatures demanding better broiler welfare are handed over to Tesco at their annual stakeholder meeting, together with RSPCAUnited Kingdom
July
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
August
The second round of our campaign against common practices in the dairy industry is released in DenmarkDenmark
The first two restaurants in Ukraine commit to stop selling foie grasUkraine
Investigation into UK broiler farming released by Open Cages published in The Times, followed by coverage in multiple local and national mediaUnited Kingdom
September
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
The Biggest Polish online supermarket Frisco introduces the first ECC policy for broiler chickensPoland
Eights foxes are saved following an investigation into a fur farm. We continue to push further for a complete ban in PolandPoland
Open Cages Ukraine wins the case to ban animals in Odessa state circusUkraine
October
A permanent ban on moose hunting is achieved in UkraineUkraine
The Food Innovation Summit leads to an international award being granted to an Estonian company to develop innovative meat alternativesEstonia
The Plant-Powered Perspectives conference is held in WarsawPoland
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
Our team in Russia launches their first Vegan Challenge with 470 participantsRussia
Our team in Russia joins the cage-free campaign against Wyndham HotelsRussia
Our team in Russia is invited to one of the biggest HoReCa events in Russia Coffee Tea Ru Expo 2020Russia
November
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 team in Russia organises the Vegan Day, which is a free event for vegan challenge participants and mentorsRussia
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
2020
April
Assiettes Végétales joins Anima InternationalFrance