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Origins of "Cartooning"

Plantu - Souris ONUThe power and the responsibility of political cartooning were illustrated by the Prophet Mohammad cartoon debacle and the controversial cartoon exhibition on the Holocaust in Iran.

Conceived by the French cartoonist Plantu, ‘Cartooning for Peace’ is an initiative born on October 16, 2006 at the UN Headquarters in New York. Twelve of the most renowned political cartoonists from all over the world participated in a two-day conference to help us ‘Unlearn intolerance’. The conference was accompanied by an exhibition.

A movement was born.
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Upcoming Exhibits and Events

From 6 December 2008 to 8 March 2009 cartooning exhibit "Permis de croquer" takes place at the Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris.