The Nonhuman Rights Project Inc.

“Steven wise, president, and gail price-wise, director, have a family relationship.”

“There are no committees with authority to act on behalf of the board.”

“Nonhuman rights project inc, has its form 990 prepared by an outside accounting firm and has established the following review process to ensure that the information reported is complete and accurate. When the form 990 has been prepared, it is electronically sent to the in-house bookkeeper and two members of the board for review. Any comments are then grouped, summarized and provided to the outside accountants. Each issue is documented and address until the return is finalized and approved for filing.”

“Annually all board members and officers of the organization must fill out a conflict of interest disclosure. In connection with any actual or possible conflict of interest, an interested person must disclose the existence of the financial interest and be given the opportunity to disclose all material facts to the directors and members of committees with governing board delegated powers considering the proposed transaction or arrangement. After disclosure of the financial interest and all material facts, and after any discussion with the interested person, he/she shall leave the governing board or committee meeting while the determination of a conflict of interest is discussed and voted upon. The remaining board or committee members shall decide if a conflict of interest exists.”

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“The organization's governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements are available upon request.”

“As the only civil rights organization in the us dedicated solely to securing rights for nonhuman animals, the nonhuman rights project continues to be the leading force in building a national and global nonhuman rights movement. Based on years of rigorous research and driven by the same values and principles of justice that underlie human civil rights, our unique litigation challenges an archaic, unjust, millenia-old legal status quo that sees all animals as legal "things" with no rights. In the seven years since we filed our first lawsuitsseeking captive chimpanzees and elephants' right to liberty through writs of habeas corpuswe have achieved important legal firsts, catalyzed a global conversation about the urgency and important of nonhuman rights, and inspired and empowered people around the world to join the fight. In 2019, as we continued to educate audiences about what nonhuman rights are and why they matter, we added legislative work at the municipal and federal levels to the judicial work that has been our mainstay since our founding. Our litigation and soon-to-be launched legislation are the first of their kind in the world, drawing on values and principles of justice and scientific evidence of autonomy in nonhuman animals to directly confront the fact that animal welfare laws are neither a sufficient nor just means of protecting their liberty. Increasingly, and as a direct result of the nhrp's unique work, courts and legislatures are beginning to recognize the systemic problem of animals' rightlessness, the suffering it has caused, and the ways it undermines the values and principles of justice on which our own human rights depend. At the same time, our grassroots advocacy campaigns invite members of the public to join us in calling for recognition of nonhuman rights and demanding the release of our clients to sanctuaries where their right to liberty will be respected. Indicators of success and populations served litigation: in both our chimpanzee and elephant rights cases, we have secured the world's first habeas corpus hearings on behalf of nonhuman animals. In 2020, bronx supreme court justice alison y. Tuitt issued a decision in our elephant client happy's case after over 13 hours of oral argument, writing that the court "agrees [with the nhrp] that happy is more than just a legal thing, or property. She is an intelligent, autonomous being who should be treated with respect and dignity, and who may be entitled to liberty the arguments advanced by the nhrp are extremely persuasive for transferring happy from her solitary, lonely one-acre exhibit at the bronx zoo to an elephant sanctuary." however, justice tuitt dismissed happy's habeas petition because "regrettably this court is bound by the legal precedent set by the appellate division when it held that animals are not 'persons' entitled to rights and protections afforded by the writ of habeas corpus." in 2018, as favorably cited to by justice tuitt, new york court of appeals justice eugene m. Fahey issued an opinion in which he urged his fellow judges to treat the question of nonhuman animals' rightlessness as "a deep dilemma of ethics and policy that demands our attention the issue whether a nonhuman animal has a fundamental right to liberty protected by the writ of habeas corpus is profound and far-reaching. It speaks to our relationship with all the life around us. Ultimately, we will not be able to ignore it." justice fahey also criticized the appellate division decisions in the nhrp's chimpanzee rights cases, making clear they were wrongly decided on the grounds that the nhrp's clients aren't members of the human species and can't bear legal duties. Also in 2018, new york's fourth department cited to one of our chimpanzee rights case in people v. Graves, writing, "it is common knowledge that personhood can and sometimes does attach to nonhuman entities like corporations or animals." while our litigation hasn't yet directly freed our clients, the above statem”