In 2025, Cartooning for Peace organized more than 70 events, held around 20 exhibitions open to the general public, and conducted 258 educational workshops in schools, extracurricular settings, and prisons. These activities punctuated the year and marked its highlights, both in France and around the world.
In January 2025, Cartooning for Peace paid tribute to Charlie Hebdo through a series of events dedicated to the memory of the 2015 attacks against the editorial staff and press cartoons.
On the 2nd of January: Publication of “Holding the Line – 40 cartoons for Charlie (2015-2025)”. TRACT illustrated by Cartooning for Peace published by Gallimard
From the 4th to the 11th of January: Cartoons for “Charlie” by Le Monde
On the 8th of January: Training in human rights education and pedagogy through press cartoons for education professionals, in partnership with 2IDHP
On the 11th of January: International press and digital campaign with Reporters without borders (RSF)
On the 16th of January: Commemoration of the attacks on Charlie Hebdo: a time of exchange and remembrance with secondary school pupils at the Centre Paris’ Anim Jacques Bravo in partnership with “Dessinez Créez Liberté”
Berhang Jeddi (Iran)
On the 17th of January: Round-table “Libérons les crayons” : 10 years on, what remains of the Charlie Spirit? with the Haute-Garonne Departmental Council
On the 20th of January: Meeting “The 1001 lives of press cartoons” with BPI Centre Pompidou
As part of the “Cartooning for Peace” exhibition, 24 high school classes from the Île-de-France region developed a civic argument by participating in conferences and workshops on press cartoons, before presenting their thoughts and creations in April in the Congress Hall of the Palace of Versailles.
On May 3, World Press Freedom Day, Europeans Without Borders (ESF), Cartooning for Peace (CFP), and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) are joining forces around CARICARTOONS, a campaign celebrating press freedom, seen by more than 104 million people and broadcast by a large network of media partners: ARTE, EURONEWS, FRANCE TÉLÉVISIONS, CANAL+, RTBF, LCP/AN, TRACE TV, FRANCE 24, PATHÉ CINÉMAS, DULAC CINÉMA, CGR CINÉMAS, and their digital platforms.
© Guffo (Italy), Fahd Bahady (Syria), Kak (France), Pedro X. Molina (Nicaragua) – Cartooning for Peace
In July 2025, Cartooning for Peace participated for the fourth consecutive year in the International Journalism Festival in Couthures-sur-Garonne.
This year, cartoonists Ann Telnaes (United States), Vadot (Belgium), and Kak (France), president of Cartooning for Peace, participated in several debates on freedom of expression and human rights in times of authoritarian regimes.
The Cartooning for Myanmar project highlights the work of seven Burmese cartoonists in exile, supported by Cartooning for Peace, Info Birmanie, and Visual Rebellion, with the backing of the City of Paris, Fondemos, and Reporters Without Borders. On display at the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont from September 2025, the cartoons illustrate the repression in Burma since the 2021 coup, while also forming part of a program to build capacity and network Burmese cartoonists with international members of Cartooning for Peace.
Lun Yé (Burma)
In September 2025, Cartooning for Peace will present a new educational tool to facilitate discussions on the key issues surrounding the deployment of artificial intelligence, with its usual blend of humor and intelligence!
The educational tool consists of an exhibition, activity sheets and accompanying documents, as well as video testimonials made by young people mobilized by Francas des Pyrénées orientales, a popular education association (Perpignan).
Over 8,000 visits to the educational tool website!
This book, which pays tribute to the talent and courage of press photographers and cartoonists, offers a diversity of perspectives on the challenges of international conflicts, the instability of democracy, the questioning of human rights and the acceleration of global warming.
Co-directed by Cartooning for Peace and Emmanuelle Hascoët, exhibition curator, and supported by Amnesty International, which wrote the afterword, this book, published by Éditions de La Martinière, presents some sixty pairs of photographs and press cartoons, accompanied by a text by Pierre Haski, geopolitical expert and president of Reporters Without Borders, and a joint interview with Kak, press cartoonist and president of Cartooning for Peace, and Guillaume Herbaut, award-winning photojournalist.
To mark the book’s release, Cartooning for Peace and the Jean-Jaurès Foundation organized a round table discussion
at the Jean-Jaurès Foundation with:
Cartooning for Peace is mobilizing in the fight against misinformation and hate speech on the African continent as part of the “Cartooning for Africa Facts” project alongside CFI and Africa Check.
Highlights of #CartooningforAfrica Facts:
1 – An illustrated fact-checking manual
Download (free of charge) the illustrated fact-checking manual “Cartooning for Africa Facts”
2 – Events: Africa Facts Summit and Cocobulles Festival 2025
Cartooning for Peace participated in the Africa Facts Summits in 2023 and 2025.
The fact-checking manual was unveiled for the first time at the 2025 Cocobulles Festival in Abidjan.
3 – #CartooningforAfricaFacts campaigns against misinformation
Balobaki, Zimfact, Tâche d’Encre, FactCheck Africa, Fact-Check Congo, and Cartooning for Peace have joined forces to launch two cartoon campaigns highlighting the dangers of misinformation and the importance of fact-checking during election periods.
Cartooning for Peace has developed new partnerships with fact-checking organizations Eleza Fact (DRC), Fact-Check Congo (Congo), and Fact Check Africa (Nigeria).
From November 5 to 7, 2025, the Council of Europe hosted the 2025 World Forum for Democracy: “Democracy in Peril: How Can We Revive It?”, a unique event organized by the Council of Europe in partnership with the City of Strasbourg.
On this occasion, Cartooning for Peace ran educational workshops with the Strasbourg Youth Council and presented its exhibition on artificial intelligence: “Artificial Intelligence: a (r)evolution?” aimed at raising awareness among young people and the general public about the risks of AI for human rights.
Cartooning for Peace took part in the International Comics Festival organized by the Cité de la bande dessinée in Angoulême on November 6, 2025, during a round table discussion on freedom of expression in press cartoons, with the aim of raising public awareness of the situation of threatened press cartoonists.
From December 4 to 6, 2025, Cartooning for Peace participated in the International Cartoon and Comic Strip Conference at the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) 2025 in Mexico, which brought together leading press cartoonists from Latin America and around the world.
The programme included round tables and meetings, with the participation of Elena Ospina, winner of the 2025 La Catrina Prize, and numerous members of the Cartooning for Peace network, such as Adene, Kak, Boligán, Bonil and many others. On this occasion, the exhibition “Voces ilustradas” was presented at the JAPI Museum in Guadalajara from December 5 to February 1, 2026, bringing together 60 drawings celebrating press cartoons and freedom of expression and paying tribute to the victims of the attack on Charlie Hebdo.
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For nearly 20 years, alongside its partners, Cartooning for Peace has been taking action every day, at its own scale, to help build a more just, peaceful, supportive… and joyful society, thanks to the courage and talent of the press cartoonists who make up this international network.
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A big thank you to our partners on all of the projects mentioned.
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