UN launches global cartoon competition

UN Women, together with the European Commission, Belgium, France, Mexico, and in partnership with Cartooning for Peace, is organizing a Comic and Cartoon Competition to mark the 25th anniversary of the groundbreaking Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which set out how to remove the systemic barriers that hold women back from equal participation in all areas of life. The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action is a visionary agenda for women and girls' empowerment, everywhere, still to date.

To commemorate this anniversary, UN Women has launched the multigenerational campaign, "Generation Equality: Realizing women's rights for an equal future," and will be convening a global gathering for gender equality, the Generation Equality Forum, co-chaired by France and Mexico, with the leadership and partnership of civil society. The Forum will kick-off in Mexico City at the end of March 2021 and culminate in Paris, France, in early June 2021.

As a global public conversation for urgent action and accountability for gender equality, the Forum will celebrate the power of women's rights activism, feminist solidarity, and youth leadership to achieve transformative change.

The finalists and semi-finalists' drawings will be exhibited -either virtually or in situ- during the Generation Equality Forum in Paris.

In cooperation with Cartooning for Peace, professional and renowned comic artists from different corners of the world have been identified as jury members. Finalists will be selected by a jury composed of expert comic artists and high-level representatives of the organizing partners.

The winners will have their work featured on several platforms, such as the website of Cartooning For Peace, but also on websites of other official partners and their respective social media channels.