Myanmar: Zarganar’s arrest highlights junta’s efforts to silence critics
Myanmar: Zarganar’s arrest highlights junta’s efforts to silence critics
Tag: PEN International
Corruption, Impunity, Violence
On February 24, 2015 PEN representatives from Canada, Germany, Honduras and Mexico met with members of the Mexican Senate’s Comisión de Justicia. At the meeting, John Ralston Saul, President of PEN International made the following introductory remarks.
Founding Member of PEN Honduras Barred from Journalism
On Oct. 1, 2014, PEN Honduras was formally welcomed as a PEN Centre. Sadly, this occasion was marred by news that a 16-month media ban was handed down to founding member Julio Ernesto Alvarado.
Honduras: Journalism in the Shadow of Impunity
Journalists who cover organized crime, government corruption and other sensitive issues are increasingly facing threats and lethal attacks in Honduras, with almost complete impunity for perpetrators, said PEN International in a report released today in partnership with PEN Canada and the International Human Rights Program (IHRP) at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.
A Q & A with Claire Battershill
PEN Canada caught up with Claire Battershill, author of “The Collective Name of Ninjas”, for a conversation about reading, writing, and her work.
Canadian Makes PEN International’s New Voices Longlist
Congratulations to Claire Battershill on making the PEN International longlist for the New Voices Award.
Announcing the PEN International New Voices Award
PEN Canada is excited to announce the first annual PEN International New Voices Award. The award aims to encourage new writing and to provide space where for young and unpublished writers can submit their work.
PEN International’s UPR submission on Mexico
Three years after Mexico accepted United Nations (UN) recommendations for combating violence against journalists and eradicating impunity for human rights violations, “the rate at which journalists are being attacked and killed in the country continues to spiral,” PEN International warned on March 7, 2013 during a submission to the UN’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process.
PEN Int’l Condemns Article 301 Prosecution of PEN Turkey
This charge is a misuse of a law which, in the context of international freedom of expression standards, itself should not exist. – John Ralston Saul
Dispatches From the 78th Congress
PEN International’s 78th Congress in Gyeongju, Korea brought together more than 300 delegates from 80 countries to share ideas, discuss campaigns and focus on emerging challenges to freedom of expression.