Kofi Annan Courage in Cartooning Award 2024

Rachita Taneja, Inde

Zunzi, Hong Kong

Les lauréats

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From left to right: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Shirin Ebadi, 2024 Award co-laureate Zunzi, Freedom Cartoonists Vice-president Marie Heuzé, Freedom Cartoonists President Patrick Chappatte, 2024 co-laureate Rachita Taneja and CNN Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour (photo: Mikaal Ahmad, for the Freedom Cartoonists Foundation)

Genève, Suisse, 3 mai 2024

On World Press Freedom Day, on May 3, the Freedom Cartoonists Foundation recognized the talent and courage of cartoonists working under difficult circumstances.

Le Kofi Annan Courage in Cartooning Award 2024 a été remis par la lauréate du prix Nobel de la paix, la Dr Shirin Ebadi (Iran), lors d’une cérémonie publique à l’Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales de Genève, en présence de Christiane Amanpour, présentatrice-vedette de CNN.

This cartoon award has been presented every two years since 2012. (In alternance with the biennial international Prize presented by the allied organization Cartoonists Rights in the United States).

The Laureates

Rachita Taneja, Inde

On her popular online webcomic Sanitary Panels, the young Indian cartoonist Rachita Taneja draws chronicles of daily life in India.

Elle vit sous la menace de la prison à la suite d’une plainte déposée par un membre du parti nationaliste au pouvoir. On lui reproche ses dessins qui critiquent le patriarcat, l’intolérance et l’autoritarisme.

Her cartoons on the ban on the hijab in schools gave rise in 2022 to new treats. India ranks 161 on 180 countries according to RSF Press Freedom Index.

Zunzi, Honk Kong

In May 2023, Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao dismissed Zunzi, its regular cartoonist since 1983. The decision came after months of criticism of Zunzi by officials since Beijing adopted in 2020 National Security Laws that have reshaped Hong Kong’s arts, culture, and the media.

His cartoons were denounced by officials for their “sanctimonious humour that damages Hong Kong’s image” and called “ too distorting and unethical ”. Hong Kong ranks 140 on 180 countries on RSF Press Freedom Index.

Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

“I honor [cartoonist’s] work, I pay tribute to their work, their determination and their creativity”

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Shirin Ebadi, 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner

“I would like to thank […] those who use their pen their, art, their words to stand up to these despotic regimes and I know that they will be victorious, because Freedom will victorious!”

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