As Parcerias Público-Privadas como meio de concretização de políticas públicas para assegurar o direito fundamental dos animais à saúde

Abstract

This study aims to shed light on Animal Law from the perspective that animals are subjects of rights and, therefore, possess fundamental rights and guarantees that must be safeguarded by the Public Authorities through the implementation of public policies. Among these, the article focused on public-private partnerships, particularly the accreditation of veterinary establishments, with the purpose of ensuring animals’ fundamental right to public health, specifically health in its holistic sense, understood as a unity encompassing animal rights, human rights, and, ultimately, the right to a balanced environment through the control of zoonoses, considering that this issue is directly related to these three spheres of rights that must be protected. Furthermore, this works also provided clarifications on the legal-normative construction of Animal Law, as well as its intrinsic relationship with Environmental Law and the consequences of disregarding them. Thus, it builds an argument aimed at ensuring the satisfaction of social interests, based on the conception of animals as subjects of rights and, therefore, holders of fundamental rights and guarantees that must necessarily be safeguarded by the State, as the holder and guardian of these essential rights for the dignified existence of these beings and, consequently, for the assurance of a balanced environment, both for non human and human beings.