GRC report: Not Just Words
The Global Reporting Centre has just released a new report, Not Just Words: How Reputational Attacks Harm Journalists and Undermine Press Freedom. This report follows the launch of a website summarizing its …
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Over 100 Nobel Laureates sign open letter in support of Ales Bialiatski
Photo credit: CC BY-SA 3.0 PL (from PEN International website) May 21, 2023: PEN International, the literary and free expression organisation, has released a letter signed by 103 Nobel Laureates, …
GRC report on Reputational Attacks Against Journalists
May 1, 2023 —The Global Reporting Centre at the University of British Columbia has published a study of reputational threats faced by journalists around the world. GRC researchers surveyed 645 journalists, in …
Meet the jury for the 2023 New Voices Award!
PEN Canada is now accepting submissions for the 2023 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award. The award seeks to encourage new writing and to provide a space where unpublished writers …
Submit your application to our Communications & Social Media Coordinator position!
COMMUNICATIONS AND SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR Date Posted: April 11, 2023 Application Deadline: May 9, 2023 Start Date: July 3, 2023 Salary: $36,000 Province: Ontario Region: Metro Toronto Area City: Toronto/GTA …
Book Bans and Justice of the Imagination
Censorship of 2SLGBTQ+ writing “justice of the imagination,” the critical responsibility of showing all kids that any kid can be the hero of a story.
Mexico: Pegasus Spyware used on Journalists and Citizens
A recent investigation has revealed shocking evidence of the illegal use of surveillance tools by the military to spy on its own people
Guatemala: Authorities Must Stop Legal Harassment of Journalists
The court order to investigate nine elPeriódico journalists for alleged disinformation, sets a serious precedent for freedom of expression in Guatemala and is evidence of systematic persecution of the press by the authorities, PEN International said today.
Türkiye: Persisting crackdown on free expression
Türkiye: Persisting crackdown on free expression one month since devastating earthquakes March 6, 2023 – Today marks one month since devastating earthquakes struck Türkiye and Syria, resulting in the deaths …
Belarus: Nobel Peace laureate sentenced to prison
On March 3, 2023, a court in Minsk sentenced writer, Nobel Peace Prize winner and PEN Belarus member Ales Bialiatski to 10 years in prison on trumped up charges of smuggling, and organizing and financing actions that grossly violate public order. Bialiatski was tried alongside two colleagues from the Viasna Human Rights Centre (Viasna)