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Maneesha Deckha

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Maneesha Deckha is a law professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Her work initially spanned human rights, injustice, feminist theory, post-colonial & decolonial theory and later, inter-species justice and its links and intersectionality with human social justice. Maneesha founded and directs the Animals & Society Research Initiative at Victoria University. She is the author of the book “Animals as Legal Beings”.

Maneesha is Hindu, an atheist and has a naturalistic worldview. She is vegan and has at least a sentiocentric moral scope.

Maneesha at the University of Victoria
A Deeper Kindness documentary series
Human Children, Nonhuman Animals, and a Plant-Based Vegan Future

 

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