Photograph of Paraguayan Centre members gathered for a conference titled Por la Libertad de Expresión y los Derechos Humanos, which took place in Asunción on 2 November 2017 and was held as part of PEN International’s Day of the Dead Campaign – an inititative that was launched on 2 November 2011 as a means of annually commemorating writers and journalists who have been murdered, or who have disappeared, as a result of their work. Among them are: Víctor-Jacinto Flecha, second from the left, vice-president of the Paraguayan Centre (2017-); Nelson Aguilera, fifth from the left, member of the Centre’s Board; and Emi Kasamatsu, fourth from the right, president of the Paraguayan Centre (2007-12; 2017-19). This event, which was the first of this kind held by the Paraguayan Centre, featured talks by well-known journalists, poets and radio hosts, and was widely reported upon in the Paraguayan press.