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Report: the first Cartooning Global Forum

On a world-wide day of celebration of the defence of human rights we present a new initiative on behalf of cartoonists everywhere.

One of the most significant tasks for CRNI over the past year was our role within the planning committee for the Cartooning Global Forum (États Généraux du Dessin de Presse), not a new organisation but rather a new opportunity for cartoonists, the bodies that represent them and affiliated stakeholders from the press and media as well as those working to protect freedom of expression to share knowledge and experience and identify areas of common interest where we can work collectively.

Using three of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals — Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions, Reduced Inequalities and Quality of Education — as a framework of discussion, human rights were at the heart of the event from its inception. Today, as the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is celebrated, our colleagues in Paris have released a brochure summarising the inaugural forum that took place at UNESCO on October 3rd. You may download a pdf copy below.

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We hope that in addition to providing a useful record of the first chapter in this story it will attract even greater levels of participation in the next forum. Significant dates between now and then include:

December 2018: applications for participation in CGF/EGDP 2019 o pen
March 2019: finalization of recommendations from CFG/EGDP 2018
May 3rd 2019: communication of recommendations, marking World Press Freedom Day
October 2nd 2019: CGF/EGDP 2019, Paris (venue tbc)

And while looking both back and forward, let us extend the compliments of the festive season to all cartoonists, their families and friends around the world. We hope a happier, safer, freer New Year awaits us all

Thanks once again to the rest of the committee:

Nicolas Jacquette (director, Studio Irresistible)
Jérôme Liniger (director, Studio Irresistible)
Gérard Vandenbroucke (honorary president, Centre Permanent du Dessin de Presse, Saint-Just-le-Martel)
Corinne Villegier (director, Centre Permanent et Salon International de la Caricature du Dessin de Presse et d’Humour, Saint-Just-le-Martel)
Chloé Verlhac-Tignous (director of publishing, Editions Les Petites Teignes)
Patric Pinter (cartoonist for l’Orient le Jour)

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CRNI at first Cartooning Global Forum

The inaugural États Généraux du Dessin de Presse / Cartooning Global Forum took place at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris on October 3rd.

A new initiative to bring the world’s cartoonists and the organisations that support them together for a focused day of work each year, the first meeting took place under the gracious auspices of the Délégation Permanente de la France aupres de l’UNESCO and His Excellency M. Laurent Stefanini.

Invaluable support was provided by sponsors Fondation Varennes, la Ville de Montreuil, the Ocean Tree Group, Culture Papier and la Mairie de Paris.

The steering committee for the event were:

Nicolas Jacquette (director, Studio Irresistible)
Jérôme Liniger (director, Studio Irresistible)
Gérard Vandenbroucke (honorary president, Centre Permanent du Dessin de Presse, Saint-Just-le-Martel)
Corinne Villegier (director, Centre Permanent et Salon International de la Caricature du Dessin de Presse et d’Humour, Saint-Just-le-Martel)
Chloé Verlhac-Tignous (director of publishing, Editions Les Petites Teignes)
Patric Pinter (cartoonist for l’Orient le Jour)
Terry Anderson (deputy executive director, CRNI)

Discussion was broken into two roundtables, taking “Cartooning as Tool for Peace and Justice” and “Pedagogy, Field Actions & Education Policies” as the themes, drawn from the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals 2030. Mr. Anderson moderated the morning discussion, saying in his opening remarks:

“We’ve heard much in recent years about cartoonists as ‘canaries in the coal mine’ and how our problems are early indicators of a wider, insidious and worsening chilling of freedom of expression. I’ve used the metaphor myself in the past but increasingly I dislike it as it implies a degree of fragility and dispensability. We are not victims or victims in waiting. We are essential to the health of press and media and therefore crucial to democracy.”

Among the participants were delegates from IFEX, of which we are a member, as well as our partner organisations the PCO and Africartoons and friends from CartonClub, United Sketches, Index on Censorship, CPJ and many others. Free to travel intentionally once again, our past Courage in Cartooning Award winner Zunar was also present. In total some two dozen nations had representation in the forum.

Recommendations from the first États Généraux du Dessin de Presse will be refined in the coming months and published ahead of World Press Freedom Day, May 3rd 2019 and the next meeting will take in Paris the following October.

CRNI are very pleased to be part of this ongoing conversation and look forward to an even larger, broader forum next year.

Thanks to The Surreal McCoy of PCO for this picture of Terry and Zunar.

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