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Cartooning for Peace unveils its Activity Report 2022





Cartooning for Peace is pleased to unveil its Activity Report for the year 2022:

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Editorial by Kak, President of Cartooning for Peace:

This activity report, above all, is the synthesis of the faithful and constant commitment of all the cartoonists who are members of our network, without whom nothing would be possible, as well as the impressive results of a team. The team of Cartooning for Peace employees, whose passion, expertise and diligence enable the organisation to continue to develop the missions imagined by Plantu in 2006: to show and explain press cartoons, to raise awareness among the younger generation of the culture of human rights and of living together in harmony, and to protect cartoonists who are threatened in the exercise of their art.

It also illustrates the impact of the support of our partners and their funding for collective action. Thank you to the French Development Agency (Agence française pour le développement – AFD), the French Ministries of Culture, Justice and Education, MGEN, the Grand Est Region, the City of Vaulx-en-Velin, the City of Paris and the French Institute, the 11 January Fund, UNESCO, among others.

If I had to single out highlights from the myriad of activities presented in this document, I would say that 2022 was characterised by trends that are likely to become even more pronounced in our interventions in 2023:

  • a regular presence in events with a European dimension, which helps to anchor press cartoons as a fundamental value of the continent’s democracies
  • a closeness to events dedicated to the press and journalism, the natural ecosystem of press cartoons;
  • among the many human rights themes covered by our organisation, the strong recurrence of the fight for gender equality;
  • the multiplication of educational interventions with young audiences, not only through our traditional school workshops with cartoonists but also through new educational tools for education professionals;
  • increased vigilance in the direction of the repressive laws that appear as a result of (and sometimes on the pretext of) crises (health, security, military) of which my colleagues are regularly the first victims;
  • specific work on the upheaval triggered by digital technologies, both for the practice and distribution of press cartoons and for the relationship of the public to information;
  • and of course, above all, a relentless fight against war, which is still the crucible of the most inhuman violence and the generator of century-old hatreds; and which brings us back to the very origins of our organisation, created under the patronage of Kofi Annan: Cartooning for Peace.
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