On 3 May, World Press Freedom Day, the Freedom Cartoonists Foundation recognises the talent and courage of cartoonists working in difficult circumstances with an award that has been given every two years since 2012, alternating with the international award given every two years by Cartoonists Rights in the United States. The Kofi Annan ... Leer más
Cartoon Rights International Network(CRNI) is the world's first human rights organisation dedicated exclusively to defending cartoonists' freedom of expression for the past two decades. On 22 December, the group announced that it was leaving Twitter in a statement in which it explained its reasons for leaving, which I have translated and reproduced in ... Leer más
On 20 July, the Quevedo Institute of the Arts of Humour of the General Foundation of the University of Alcalá in Madrid (FAGUA) published and circulated this communiqué in which they expressed their concern after learning of some cases of judicial persecution of different pieces of humour, actions that they consider to be ... Leer más
BBC, cartoon of 12/03/2023 in CTXT British public television decided to axe Gary Lineker, which has a football programme there called Match of the Day, because of the footballer's comments on Twitter. Any company is very sovereign in deciding who they associate with, but that's also an indication of where they're breathing and ... Leer más
Translation: "The supreme leader was made to feel insignificant by cartoons" The ayatollah and the cartoons. Cartoon of 07/01/2023 in CTXT "On December 8, 2022, we launched a competition to draw caricatures of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Our intention was to support the Iranians' struggle for freedom by ... Leer más
This blog is hosted by LucusHost.
