Pen International
In Focus
- 23 May 2013
Hay Festival Wales - 9 Sep 2013
The 79th PEN International Congress - 23 Nov 2013
International Day to End Impunity
Every year, PEN International hosts a number of events around the world promoting freedom of expression and celebrating literature in a variety of ways. PEN Centres stage events such as literary festivals large and small, storytelling sessions with families and children, book clubs and everything in between. One important occasion to mark is the annual Day of the Imprisoned Writer, 15 November, which gives the entire PEN community a chance to celebrate our work across the world as well as drawing attention to the ongoing persecution faced by many writers today.
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PEN International at Hay Festival Beirut 2013.
After becoming Global Partners with Hay Festivals last year, PEN International has now held a wide range of literary events around the world, a number of which have been co-organised …
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PEN International Launches Report on Creative Freedom in China.
On Friday May 3, World Press Freedom Day, PEN International released its report, The PEN Report: Creativity and Constraint in Today’s China.
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Spotlight on the UPR – Russian Federation.
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United Nations (UN) April 2013 In late April and early May 2013 the human rights records of Uzbekistan, Russia, Azerbaijan and Cameroon will …
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Registration now open for the 2013 PEN International Congress in Reykjavik, Iceland.
*Every PEN member participating in this year’s Congress will have the exciting opportunity to give readings of their literary work to people of Reykjavik and those visiting the city. Throughout …
- At UN, Cameroon fails to respond to concerns about persecution and imprisonment of journalist and writers May 10th, 2013
- تونس: تثبيت الحكم على مدون و مخاوف بشأن سلامته May 8th, 2013
- TURKEY: Petition to free writer, translator and activist Ayşe Berktay May 7th, 2013
Recent blog posts
- April 26 2013 ➔
Dear friends, It has been a very busy couple of months here in the International Secretariat as I know it has been for many of you. Here is some of …
- April 18 2013 ➔
In South Africa it is difficult to imagine a place or historical moment in which enamel crockery was preferable to hand-crafted Nigerian pottery. Enamel holds a unique set of connotations …
- April 17 2013 ➔
Since the United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 an issue has been newly identified, feminicide (or femicide), gender-related murder. Bride-burnings and honor killings are feminicides, …
