One Earth Accord
Bridging Movements. Strengthening Advocacy. Transforming Systems.
A Global South movement connecting animal rights, animal welfare, and allied advocates across Global South through collaboration, exchange, and shared leadership.
To advance either animal welfare or animal rights, you must understand both.
Bridge-building, not division.
Animal advocacy across Global South is fragmented not just across causes, but within animal protection itself. Welfare practitioners and rights or vegan advocates often work in silos, sometimes in tension, when the evidence is clear: to advance either, you must understand both.
Welfare holds frontline access and practical relief. Rights and vegan advocates hold long-term systems change and moral clarity. Neither is complete without the other. When they work together, sharing strategy, respecting different entry points, united by a shared love for animals, the movement becomes unstoppable.
Read the Founding Insight
Why we exist.
The Accord rests on five interconnected pillars. Together they describe why the movement exists and how each piece of infrastructure delivers on it.
Building stronger connections, partnerships, and collective action across animal advocacy communities in Global South.
Facilitating the sharing of skills, experience, expertise, and innovation across organisations and professionals.
Strengthening the long-term health, wellbeing, leadership, and sustainability of advocates and organisations.
Improving discoverability, coordination, and strategic alignment across the sector.
Advancing understanding of interconnected harms and supporting collaborative responses to complex challenges.
The systems we are building.
Five infrastructures that turn the pillars into practice designed for collaboration, exchange, and movement strengthening.
Cross-learning across animal rights, welfare, legal, veterinary, academic and grassroots actors.
Create structured opportunities for organisations to align around shared themes while maintaining their independence.
Strengthening the long-term wellbeing, resilience, and sustainability of advocates and organisations.
Create visibility and coordination across fragmented advocacy spaces.
Bridge-building requires people. People deserve to be sustained.