To mark World Press Freedom Day, Cartooning for Peace is joining forces with the Freedom Cartoonists Foundation for two key events:
Since 2012, the Freedom Cartoonists Foundation and the City of Geneva have awarded the International Press Cartoon Prize every two years to courageous artists committed to defending freedom of expression and human rights.
This biennial prize is awarded in partnership with the US-based NGO Cartoonists Rights, which, in turn, awards its own International Press Cartoon Prize every two years, alternating with the Foundation.
The Foundation and the City of Geneva will present the 2026 Prize on 4 May, the day after World Press Freedom Day, as celebrated by the UN.
Programme:
With two leading figures on current affairs in the United States:
– Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, former Chief Economist at the World Bank, and professor at Columbia University
– Kenneth Roth, visiting professor at Princeton and former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch
– Messages from Marie Barbey-Chappuis, City Councillor for the City of Geneva, and Marie-Laure Salles, Director of the Geneva Graduate Institute
– Introduction: Marie Heuzé and Patrick Chappatte, Vice-President and President of the Freedom Cartoonists Foundation
– Speech by Joseph Stiglitz, followed by a discussion with Kenneth Roth
– Presentation of the 2026 International Press Cartoon Award
The presentation of the International Prize is traditionally accompanied by an exhibition of press cartoons in the world’s most beautiful art gallery, the Quai Wilson, on the shores of Lake Geneva.
The 2026 edition is dedicated to three topical issues as depicted by cartoonists from around the world: new empires, the impact of artificial intelligence and freedoms
under attack.
This exhibition, organised in partnership with the Cartooning for Peace network, is open throughout the month of May.
