Oh my gosh this rocks:

The Spanish Socialist Party will introduce a bill in the Congress of Deputies calling for "the immediate inclusion of simians in the category of persons, and that they be given the moral and legal protection that currently are only enjoyed by human beings." The PSOE's justification is that humans share 98.4% of our genes with chimpanzees, 97.7% with gorillas, and 96.4% with orangutans.
The party will announce its Great Ape Project at a press conference tomorrow. An organization with the same name is seeking a UN declaration on simian rights which would defend ape interests "the same as those of minors and the mentally handicapped of our species."

According to the Project, "Today only members of the species Homo sapiens are considered part of the community of equals. The chimpanzee, the gorilla, and the orangutan are our species's closest relatives. They possess sufficient mental faculties and emotional life to justify their inclusion in the community of equals."

What is intense is that if Darwinian evolution was true, there really would be no convincing logical reason that comes to mind why this isn't a great idea. For that matter, the whole "human rights" thing should also be in question - who, no, what gives humans any "rights" in the first place? :)

Found at The Spain Herald via Uncommon Descent.

One more addition: Here's the official page of "The Great Ape Project."