"Human Rights Watch has no position on apes in Spain and has never had an internal debate about who is human, said Joseph Saunders, deputy program director.

“There’s no blurry middle,” he said, “and human rights are so woefully protected that we’re going to keep our focus there.”"

Perhaps protecting animal rights will lead to more peaceful worldviews in which integration and solidarity with the natural world is emphasized, thus encouraging further protections of human rights.

Finally someone is doing something right!