{"id":48519,"date":"2023-09-19T11:11:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T09:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/?p=48519"},"modified":"2024-04-16T14:47:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T12:47:36","slug":"tough-laugh-x-tough-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/tough-laugh-x-tough-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough Laugh x Tough Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of its “Enhancing legal support to press cartoonists in the digital age”<\/a> project, Cartooning for Peace is joining forces with the “Tough Laugh” project. A project about press cartoonists and the dangers they face to make us laugh – and think.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Imagine publishing one of your cartoons on Twitter, and a few hours later being stopped and arrested by the police while you are driving home with your family.<\/em><\/p>\n

Imagine being at home, on a regular evening, and receiving a notification on social media that proceedings against you are starting for three cartoons you published.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Imagined and designed by Italian cartoonist Emanuele del Rosso<\/a> (Cartooning for Peace member) and Federica Testi, the project tells the story of cartoonists in danger.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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We all come across great editorial cartoons, reading a magazine, on social media, watching TV. But we seldom think about the author of the cartoon that made us laugh, or think, or even made us angry.<\/div>\n
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Many cartoonists face economic hardship, harassment, threats and even physical violence for the job they do. Some are killed. And they often are not considered equals to journalists.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cTough Laugh\u201d<\/a> tells the stories of these cartoonists,<\/strong>\u00a0in two ways:<\/h2>\n

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🎙 With a podcast – LISTEN HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A series of episodes produced and published in partnership with Cartooning for Peace, within the project \u201cEnhancing legal support to press cartoonists in the digital age\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The episodes \u2014 each in a different language: English, Spanish, French \u2014 tackle the stories of criminalised editorial cartoonists, digging into the challenges that come with publishing cartoons, and how the law has been, and is, (mis)used to censor them. Hence, the name of this first special Tough Laugh season: \u201cTough Laugh, Tough Law\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Podcast the first episode – in English – which looks back on Emad Hajjaj (Jordan), G\u00e1bor P\u00e1pai (Hungary) and Rachita Taneja (India) experiences with the law:<\/a><\/p>\n