ABSTRACT Comics have been used for propaganda or for promoting different ideas by various institutions for a while. Spirou4Rights is an exhibition made of 17 panels with many one-page strips explaining the 30 articles of the Proclamation of the Human Rights sponsored by the UN available from 2018. This is not the first time the UN decided to use comic characters to promote a political ideal, sometimes provoking a backlash (e.g. Wonder Woman controversy in 2016). Taking advantage of the fact that this exhibition would celebrate two anniversaries at the same time (the 80th anniversary for Spirou—1938, and the 70th for the Declaration–1948), the UN surprisingly chose a character which, although cute, generous and courageous, is unknown outside the Francophone and maybe Francophile worlds. After presenting the interesting process through which this exhibition came out (context, dates, people involved, reasons for the choice) and acknowledging the good will of every participant, I will show how, these posters, the comic strips and the accompanying special issue of the magazine Spirou, are somehow problematic specifically in terms of ethnic and gender representations, reproducing the mentality of the out-of-touch ‘Good Old White Boys’ Club,’ not surprising in the rather gender-conservative BD world but quite shocking in the UN world.

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#spirou4rights ：通过漫画促进人权的批判性观点

一段时间以来，漫画一直被各种机构用于宣传或宣传不同的想法。Spirou4Rights 是一个由 17 个面板组成的展览，其中有许多单页纸条，解释了 2018 年由联合国赞助的《人权宣言》的 30 篇文章。这不是联合国第一次决定使用漫画人物来宣传政治理想的，有时会引起强烈反对（例如 2016 年神奇女侠的争议）。趁着这次展览同时庆祝两个纪念日（斯皮鲁80周年——1938年，宣言70周年——1948年），联合国出人意料地选择了一个可爱、大方、勇敢的角色，在法语国家和亲法世界之外是未知的。