WAnimal welfare and rights in Goa refers to campaigns undertaken in the region of Goa, on the west coast of India, which has been on the rise in recent years. Goa is a popular tourist destination, visited by those from abroad and the rest of India, and concerns over animal rights has been built up both by local and visitor campaigns over the same.
WWilliam John Banville is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter. Though he has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov", Banville himself maintains that W. B. Yeats and Henry James are the two real influences on his work.
WMargaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne was an English philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction writer and playwright. She wrote in her own name in a period when most women writers remained anonymous.
WThe 14th Dalai Lama, known as Gyalwa Rinpoche to the Tibetan people, is the current Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader of Tibet, and a retired political leader of Tibet. Born on 6 July 1935, or in the Tibetan calendar, in the Wood-Pig Year, 5th month, 5th day, he is considered a living Bodhisattva; specifically, an emanation of Avalokiteśvara. He is also the leader of the Gelug school, the newest school of Tibetan Buddhism, formally headed by the Ganden Tripa. The central government of Tibet, the Ganden Phodrang, invested the Dalai Lama with temporal duties until his exile in 1959. On April 29, 1959, the Dalai Lama established the independent Tibetan government in exile, the Central Tibetan Administration, in the north Indian hill station of Mussoorie, which then moved in May 1960 to Dharamshala, where he resides. He retired as political head in 2011 to make way for a democratic government.
WZoe Helene is a classically trained multi-disciplinary artist, environmentalist, and cultural activist best known for founding Cosmic Sister, an environmental feminist collective, and originating and popularizing the term and concept "psychedelic feminism," for women's "healing, empowerment, and self-liberation" with natural psychedelics.
WJohn Powell Mackey is an American businessman and writer. He is the CEO of Whole Foods Market, which he co-founded in 1980. Named Ernst & Young entrepreneur of the year in 2003, he is one of the most influential advocates in the movement for organic food.
WChesley V. Morton is an American stockbroker, securities arbitrator, and former member of the Georgia House of Representatives.
WKathryn Jane Parminter, Baroness Parminter is a Liberal Democrat life peer, and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom.
WSharon Pincott is an Australian author and specialist in the field of African elephant behavior. She has studied the social structure and population dynamics of a single clan of wild elephants extensively and is an advocate for ending ivory trade and promoting conservation.
WCatherine Louisa Pirkis was a British author of detective fiction. Throughout her career as a writer, Pirkis would sometimes write under the name of "C.L. Pirkis", as to avoid gender association.
WClaire Starozinski is a French teacher, writer, and animal rights advocate focusing on opposition to bullfighting. She is president of the AllianceAnticorrida, which she founded in 1994, and author of several books and pamphlets on bullfighting, including On est toujours le taureau de quelqu'un (2003) and La Face cachée des corridas (2006).
WJane Ann Thornthwaite is a Canadian politician who was elected in the 2009 provincial election to represent the riding of North Vancouver-Seymour in the 39th Parliament of British Columbia, and subsequently re-elected in 2013 to the 40th Parliament and in 2017 to the 41st Parliament, all as member of the BC Liberal Party. She has held several parliamentary secretary roles focusing on mental health and addictions. In 2012 she introduced private member's bill to establish standards of care for pet breeders and while it was not adopted, a version was included in a 2017 amendment to the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. She also introduced private member's bills in 2018 and 2019 addressing care for children at risk of serious harm and reporting on welfare payment methods.
WPhilip Wollen OAM is an Australian philanthropist, environmentalist and animal rights activist. He is a former Vice-President of Citibank and was also General Manager at Citicorp. Wollen is a vegan and funds projects that protect children, animals and the environment. At age 34, Australian Business Magazine named him in the "Brightest and Best" top 40 headhunted executives in Australia. In 2005 he received the Medal of the Order of Australia and in 2007 he won the Australian of the Year (Victoria) award. Wollen went to school at the Bishop Cotton Boys' School, Bangalore. He delivered The General Thimayya Memorial Lecture Bangalore, India in 2008. He lives with his wife Trix in Melbourne, Victoria.