Release of Cartooning for Peace’s new book “Fichez-nous la paix !”

120 international press cartoons look back at the war in Ukraine, its stakes and its consequences.

On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. This war on European soil has claimed thousands of victims and takes us back to the darkest hours of history. If this conflict reminds us in many ways of the wars of the last century, it also raises other issues and new threats: nuclear, economic, energy, information warfare…

Since the beginning of the conflict, Cartooning for Peace has collected hundreds of press cartoons that alert us and denounce the situation.

For this book, with a preface by journalist Pierre Haski, specialised in international issues, and published by Gallimard in partnership with Amnesty International and France Médias Monde, 120 striking cartoons have been selected. They come from all over the world and help us to understand what is at stake in this war, which has serious human, political and economic consequences.

AVAILABLE IN BOOKSHOP FROM THE 2nd OF MARCH 2023 – Price : 22€

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Download the press release (in French)

Meeting: “Ukraine: a war without an end?”

One year to the day after the beginning of the war in Ukraine (24 February 2022), and in the context of the release of the new book “Fichez-nous la paix !” (Translation: Leave us in peace!), Cartooning for Peace and Amnesty International are organising a meeting on “Ukraine: a war without an end?” on the  23rd of February 2023 at 7pm, at Amnesty’s headquarters (Paris 19).

Watch the replay (in French):

Thousands of men, women, children and elderly people killed, made refugees or displaced, a multitude of civilian infrastructures destroyed, a humanitarian situation worsening day by day and an unprecedented media coverage: one year after the beginning of the Russian invasion, the war led by Vladimir Putin in Ukraine seems impossible to stop. Far from admitting that the conflict is lost, the Russian president seems to want to plunge Ukraine into an endless war, where the capture of a village can only be done at the cost of hundreds of human lives and massive destruction.

Violations of international humanitarian law have been widely documented by Amnesty International’s research. How to collect evidence of these violations on the ground? What is the media coverage? What mechanisms of justice to judge the crimes committed? We will discuss this with :

• Pierre Haski, editorialist and president of Reporters Without Borders
• Vladimir Kazanevsky, Ukrainian press cartoonist, member of the Cartooning for Peace network
• Guillaume Herbaut, photojournalist, member of the VU’ agency
• Marie Struthers, Regional Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia for Amnesty International

Moderator: Aabla Jounaïdi, journalist at RFI

Jean-Claude Samouiller, President of Amnesty International France and Kak, President of Cartooning for Peace, will introduce the debate.

Cartoonists from Cartooning for Peace will be present.