US EditionColombia's Constitutional Court upholds bullfighting ban and adds cockfighting prohibition
The court extended the ban to cockfighting with a 2028 deadline, reflecting shifting views on animal rights and declining popularity, despite tradition claims from supporters.
- Colombia's Constitutional Court upheld the 2024 law banning bullfights and extended the ban to cockfighting in a ruling released Thursday.
- The ban followed Congress's May 2024 approval after months of debate and opposition by bullfighting supporters who saw it as a cultural tradition.
- Bullfighting has declined in Colombia since colonial times amid changing views on animal rights, and the court rejected an appeal claiming artistic expression rights.
- The court set a transition period to fully enforce the bullfighting ban by 2027 and cockfighting ban by 2028, noting around 290,000 families depend on the latter.
- This ruling places Colombia among the few countries prohibiting bullfights and suggests significant animal welfare shifts, though supporters may still seek another court review.
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Colombia's Constitutional Court upholds bullfighting ban and adds cockfighting prohibition
Colombia’s Constitutional Court on Thursday upheld a 2024 law banning bullfights in the South American country, and it went further in protecting animal rights by adding a national prohibition of cockfighting.
Conservative senator Marcos Daniel Pineda García reacted to the recent ruling of the Constitutional Court that prohibits bullfights, corrals, cock fights, cabbage and other practices with animals in Colombia. According to the congressman, these expressions are part of the cultural diversity and community life of many regions, so their total disappearance ignores the identity built for generations. Pineda highlighted that activities such as horse…
The Constitutional Court declared Law 2385 of 2024, which prohibits bullfights, bullfighting on horseback, bullfights for young bulls, bullfights for young bulls, and bullfighting tests, to be in compliance with the Constitution. In a unanimous decision, with a report by Judge Miguel Polo Rosero, it extended the ban to include bullfighting corralejas, bullfighting with ropes, and cockfights by declaring unconstitutional the section of the law th…
The Constitutional Court of Colombia has ratified on Thursday the law that prohibits bullfighting, rejoneo, heifers and other activities such as cockfighting with the aim of safeguarding animal protection and welfare in the Latin American country.
The Plena Chamber of the Constitutional Court ratified the law that prohibits bullfighting in Colombia, a decision that was made with the presentation of Judge Miguel Polo Rosero. The high court not only endorsed the norm approved by Congress, but went further by ordering the total prohibition of other traditional practices ... The post Constitutional Court leaves firm the prohibition of bullfighting and extends restriction to corralejas, coleo …
The Constitutional Court of Colombia has ratified the law that prohibits bullfighting, rejoneo, heifers and other activities such as cockfighting with the aim of safeguarding animal protection and welfare in the Latin American country. The body has thus unanimously approved this initiative by rejecting the charges of a lawsuit that asked to overthrow it for alleged irregularities of fiscal order, giving the green light to the prohibition of bull…
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