By PEN Canada | October 18, 2018 at 10:31 am
Released on the final day of PEN’s 84th annual congress, PEN’s report warns of “a rising tide of violence, impunity, extended pre-trial detentions, and surveillance” under the Modi government, of “punitive defamation laws [that] mute criticism”, nervous publishers who “have asked journalists to be less critical of authorities” and universities where a “climate of fear” has curbed student activism, rescinded invitations to controversial professors, andpurged textbooks that are deemed offensive.
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By PEN Canada | April 5, 2018 at 1:46 pm
More than 100 journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000. This piece profiles Verónica Villalvazo, who investigates femicide in this climate of fear.
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By PEN Canada | March 8, 2018 at 11:21 am
In December 2017, PEN Canada held a security training workshop for Indigenous women journalists in Guatemala, teaching them how to protect themselves and to cope with the stress of working in dangerous environments.
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By PEN Canada | February 27, 2018 at 10:56 am
Christopher Hitchens memorably described Martin Amis’s style as “a synthesis of astonishing wit and moral assiduity.” Both were much in evidence as Amis spoke with the novelist and biographer Charlie Foran at PEN Canada’s 2018 gala dinner.
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By Maria Gabriela Martinez | January 12, 2018 at 1:02 pm
LPP student Maria Gabriela Martinez writes about the security workshops held by PEN and the University of Toronto’s International Human Rights Program in Guatemala City, December 7-9, 2017.
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By Solomon Hailemariam | December 20, 2017 at 11:15 am
Solomon Hailemariam, former president of PEN Ethiopia and current PEN Canada Writer-in-Exile, reflects on his first Canadian winter.
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By Brendan de Caires | December 14, 2017 at 1:50 pm
Report on PEN Canada’s December 2017 security workshops for indigenous women journalists in Guatemala City.
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By Emily M. Keeler | December 7, 2017 at 10:45 am
PEN Canada Vice-President, Emily M. Keeler, tells the story of Advocate Kate Creasey’s work on the behalf of imprisoned Azeri writer Rashad Ramazanov.
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By PEN Canada | November 30, 2017 at 9:41 am
Poet Mikko Harvey is the 2017 winner of the RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award for unpublished writers aged 17-30.
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By Wendy Funes | November 23, 2017 at 5:54 pm
‘Unacknowledged Victims’ by Wendy Funes is the winning entry from the 2016 Escribir sin Miedo Prize for investigative/public interest journalism in Honduras.
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