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Mafalda, the inquisitive and sharp-witted creation of the late humorist Quino, also fulfilled a long-held dream on her birthday: \u201cto learn languages to be a UN interpreter\u201d and \u201cto help people understand each other\u201d.<\/p>\n
A statuette of the eternal six-year-old, sculpted by the Argentine artist Pablo Irrgang, arrived at the UN and was placed in the interpreters\u2019 booth in the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Chamber, thanks to the Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, her hometown.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not by chance that she wants to be an interpreter at the UN, because the values that Mafalda always promulgated were the values of peace over war, justice, education and, above all, freedom,\u201d the Minister of Culture of Buenos Aires, Gabriela Ricardes, told UN News<\/em>.<\/p>\nChallenging injustice and inequality<\/h2>\n
Mafalda is hugely popular throughout Latin America and Spain, but she has crossed borders and cultures, gaining fans as far afield as China and Japan.<\/p>\n
As soon as she entered the UN grounds, Mafalda posed by Non-Violence<\/em>, the famous knotted gun sculpture by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reutersw\u00e4rd.\u00a0<\/p>\nShe was immediately recognized by a group of young Japanese women visiting the Organization.<\/p>\n
\nMafalda is a girl with a unique outlook \u2013 perceptive, critical and interested in world problems; a girl from San Telmo, a neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, but concerned about world peace and what was happening to the planet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\u201cMafalda is a girl with a unique outlook \u2013 perceptive, critical and interested in world problems; a girl from San Telmo, a neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, but concerned about world peace and what was happening to the planet,\u201d said Ms. Ricardes.<\/p>\n
Mafalda provides comical and insightful social and political critique through the eyes of a curious and idealistic girl. With her sharp wit, she questions injustice, inequality, and hypocrisy in the world, while expressing concerns about peace, human rights, and the future of humanity.<\/p>\n
She is, without a doubt, a symbol of social conscience and the desire to transform the world, mixing humour with profound reflections.<\/p>\n
One of her characteristics is her use of naivety as a powerful tool. Her childlike character allows her to ask seemingly simple but profound and critical questions, disarming the adults around her and exposing their contradictions or lack of answers to complex problems.<\/p>\n
Guillermo Lavado, Quino\u2019s nephew, pointed out that \u201cit was a dream of hers to contribute to world peace, perhaps a little innocently thinking that by being a translator for the UN she could put the ideas of the different leaders in order and harmonise them so that there would be fewer conflicts and fewer wars.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Argentine cartoon character Mafalda sits in at her country’s assigned seat during her visit to the United Nations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Message still resonates<\/h2>\n
Mr. Lavado, together with Ms. Ricardes and Mr. Irrang, accompanied Mafalda throughout her tour of UN. They all stressed that she is still relevant today, even though 60 years have passed since she made her debut in a comic strip.<\/p>\n
\u201cMafalda embodies a lot of values that at this time in this world are much more needed: the values of peace, feminism, equity, equality, ecology, care for the world. These are values that are so transcendent and important that, at this moment, they are more important than ever,\u201d said Mr. Irrang.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, it is still relevant because the conflicts have changed a bit geographically, although let\u2019s say that the Middle East has remained the same for so many years and since (Mafalda) was born, but we always have the same interests that produce the same wars,\u201d Mr. Lavado noted.<\/p>\n
Upholding our common humanity<\/h2>\n
For this reason, he believes that Mafalda\u2019s message today would still be the same: \u201cthat hopefully we can agree as humanity to collaborate and not compete, and to be more with each other instead of against each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms. Ricardes pointed out that \u201cFor Mafalda, education, justice and freedom were unquestionable values, as was the exercise of good sense in a senseless world,\u201d stressing that this would be her message today.<\/p>\n
After strolling through the UN lobby, the Mafalda statuette headed to the ECOSOC Chamber, where it was received by Spanish language interpreters working for the global body.<\/p>\n
Among them was an Argentinean colleague who expressed how her dream, and Mafalda’s, was fulfilled and \u201cleft a ray of hope\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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