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by Brendan de Caires (Executive Director, PEN Canada) Twenty years ago, Florian von Donnersmarck’s dark film “The Lives of Others” showed how easily a nation state – in the form …
Tuesday January 28, 2025, at 7 p.m. EST Link to Zoom event: torontomu.zoom.us/j/91941276567 As culture wars continue to engulf universities, important questions about the limits of expressive freedom on campus have …
Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at 7 p.m. EST Link to Zoom event: torontomu.zoom.us/j/91941276567 Bitter divisions over the war in Gaza have provoked a flood of allegations that Canadian and American …
Tala Motazedi, a queer screenwriter and novelist from Iran, has been chosen as the 2024 PEN Writer-in-Residence at George Brown College. She is the first screenwriter and second playwright ever …
This year for Day of the Imprisoned Writer, PEN is calling for urgent international action from November 15 – 29 to protect four writers targeted for their peaceful free expression …
Free Narges Coalition and partners urge UN Human Rights Council to intervene for Narges Mohammadi’s urgent medical release November 18, 2024 To the United Nations Human Rights Council, We, the …
As every year, on November 15, the Day of the Imprisoned Writer, PEN calls for urgent international action to protect writers and journalists across the globe, who increasingly find themselves targeted for …
November 12, 2024: Dear Dr. Gillett, Dr. Yudkivska, Ms. Gopalan, Dr. Estrada-Castillo, and Dr. Malila, We are writing, as a coalition of human rights organisations, regarding the urgent submission made …
It is over a year since Israel began its lethal bombing campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023. As of November 8, the Committee …
Tuesday, November 26 at 3 p.m. EST Free | Zoom link to event torontomu.zoom.us/j/91941276567 A new report finds scholars and university students face frequent and pervasive attacks on their academic …