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Krikorian, Onderoglu and Whyatt at the UN

Photograph of human rights defenders outside the United Nations Office at Geneva in 2010. From left to right are: Alexis Krikorian, director of Freedom to Publish at the International...

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Date:01/01/2010
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Kathmann and Tsung Su at UN session

Photograph of Lucina Kathmann, on the right, former president of the San Miguel de Allende Centre, vice-president emerita of PEN International (2003-) and chair of the Women Writers Committee...

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HERstory exhibition in New York

Photograph of Lucina Kathmann, on the left, former president of the San Miguel de Allende Centre, vice-president emerita of PEN International (2003-) and chair of the Women Writers Committee...

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Date:01/12/2016
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Lucina Kathmann at UN Commission

Photograph of Lucina Kathmann, former president of the San Miguel de Allende Centre, vice-president emerita of PEN International (2003-) and chair of the Women Writers Committee (1996-2000), speaking at...

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Date:14/03/2019
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Starcevic and Kathmann at UN demonstration

Photograph of Elizabeth Starcevic, on the left, former president of the San Miguel de Allende Centre and member of the Women Writers Committee, and Lucina Kathmann, on the right,...

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Date:08/03/2015
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Submission to UN Human Rights Office

Electronically typed submission from the Vietnamese Abroad Centre to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 21 May 2018, ff. 8. This submission was created...

PEN centre:Vietnamese Abroad Centre  (Văn Bút Việt Nam Hải Ngoại)
Date:21/05/2018
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Protesting Vietnamese activists' sentences

Electronically typed open letter from the Vietnamese Abroad Centre, Oviedo, 6 April 2018; heading: «Letter of Protest Condemning Human Right Violations in Vietnam in light of the Recent Trial...

PEN centre:Vietnamese Abroad Centre  (Văn Bút Việt Nam Hải Ngoại)
Date:06/04/2018
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Protesting new cyber security law

Electronically typed open letter from the Vietnamese Abroad Centre, Oviedo, 12 June 2018; heading: «Letter of Objection: Protesting Vietnam’s New Cyber Security Law Granting Unlimited Powers to Infringe on...

PEN centre:Vietnamese Abroad Centre  (Văn Bút Việt Nam Hải Ngoại)
Date:12/06/2018
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Protesting Chinese lease of Vietnamese territory

Electronically typed call to action from the Vietnamese Abroad Centre to the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Oviedo, 6 June 2018, in bulletin HS: 2018/TB/KT03, ff....

PEN centre:Vietnamese Abroad Centre  (Văn Bút Việt Nam Hải Ngoại)
Date:06/06/2018
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Dương Thành Lợi (Lloyd Duong)

Photograph of Dương Thành Lợi (Lloyd Duong), president of the Vietnamese Abroad Centre (2018-20). Upon becoming president, Lloyd Duong, who left Vietnam as a refugee when he was a...

PEN centre:Vietnamese Abroad Centre  (Văn Bút Việt Nam Hải Ngoại)
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Emine and Maside Ocak are awarded

Photograph of two members of Cumartesi Anneleri, 'The Saturday Mothers' - a group of human rights defenders - receiving the 2019 PEN Duygu Asena Award at a ceremony held...

PEN centre:Turkish Centre  (PEN Türkiye Merkezi)
Date:11/03/2019
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2019 PEN Duygu Asena Award

Photograph of members of the Turkish Centre and members of Cumartesi Anneleri, 'The Saturday Mothers', onstage at the 2019 PEN Duygu Asena Awards ceremony, which was held at Tiyatro...

PEN centre:Turkish Centre  (PEN Türkiye Merkezi)
Date:11/03/2019
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Sara Whyatt

Photograph of Sara Whyatt, PEN International’s programme director (1990-2013), interim executive director (2010-11), and deputy director (2011-2013). Whyatt headed PEN International’s freedom of expression programme for over twenty years,...

PEN centre:Turkish Centre  (PEN Türkiye Merkezi)
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Traber's speech on Ken Saro-Wiwa

Typed draft of a text by Barbara Traber titled Text, den ich ungefãhr so an der ETH (vorlas schnell im Zug entworfen), which translates to "Text that I read...

PEN centre:Swiss German Centre  (DeutschSchweizer PEN Zentrum)
Date:[1995]
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Imprisonment of Václav Havel

Typed press release by the Swiss German Centre titled "Schweizer Schriftsteller und Schriftstellerinnen fordern die Freilassung von Vaclav Havel", 20 January 1989, Zurich, f. 1. This press release contains...

PEN centre:Swiss German Centre  (DeutschSchweizer PEN Zentrum)
Date:20/01/1989
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Disappearance of Václav Havel

Typed press release by Hans Erpf for Swiss German Centre titled "Wo Ist Vaclav Havel?", Bern, 8 April 1989, f. 1. In this press release Hans Erpf, general secretary...

PEN centre:Swiss German Centre  (DeutschSchweizer PEN Zentrum)
Date:08/04/1989
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Eşber Yağmurdereli

Photograph of Eşber Yağmurdereli, honorary member of Swedish, Slovak, Canadian, Czech, American and San Miguel de Allende Centres, and recipient of the 1999 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award....

PEN centre:San Miguel de Allende Centre  (San Miguel PEN)
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Statements from the St Petersburg Centre

Folder containing four statements issued by the Saint Petersburg Centre between January 2017 and June 2018, ff. 5. This document details the Saint Petersburg Centre's stance on four cases...

PEN centre:Saint Petersburg Centre  (ПЕН-Клуб Санкт-Петербург)
Date:01/01/2018
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Imposing Silence book

Copy of Tang, Amy; Rankin, Evan; de Caires, Brendan; and Beesley, Drew. Imposing Silence: The use of India's Laws to suppress Free Speech. Toronto: PEN Canada, University of Toronto,...

PEN centre:Canadian Centre  (PEN Canada)
Date:01/01/2015
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Fearful Silence book

Copy of Rankin, Evan and de Caires, Brendan. Fearful Silence: the chill on India's public sphere. Toronto: PEN Canada, University of Toronto, PEN International, 2016. This book investigates the...

PEN centre:Canadian Centre  (PEN Canada)
Date:01/01/2016
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Journalism in the shadow of Impunity book

Copy of Owens, Kaitlin. Honduras: Journalism in the shadow of Impunity. Toronto: PEN Canada, University of Toronto, PEN International, 2014. This book was the result of joint research conducted...

PEN centre:Canadian Centre  (PEN Canada)
Date:01/01/2014
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Corruption, Impunity, Silence book

Copy of Gibbons, Cara and Spratt, Beth. Corruption, Impunity, Silence: The War on Mexico’s Journalists. Toronto: PEN Canada, University of Toronto, 2011. This book examines the life-threatening circumstances journalists...

PEN centre:Canadian Centre  (PEN Canada)
Date:01/01/2011
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Saudi writers demonstration in Brussels

Photograph of a demonstration organised by the Belgian Dutch-Speaking Centre in collaboration with Amnesty International in 2015. The title of this demonstration was Schrijven is slecht voor je rug...

PEN centre:Belgian Dutch-Speaking Centre  (PEN Vlaanderen)
Date:01/01/2015
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Hadi Butimar and Layla Hassanpour

Photograph of Hadi Butimar, on the right, Layla Hassanpour, on the left, and Laura Mintegi, president (2004-15) and treasurer (2015-) of the Basque Centre, in the centre. Butimar and...

PEN centre:Basque Centre  (Euskal PEN)
Date:01/01/2008
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Brochure commemorating Ken Saro-Wiwa

Brochure created and distributed by the Basque Centre in 2005 to commemorate the life and work of Nigerian poet, writer, and human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. Saro-Wiwa fought in...

PEN centre:Basque Centre  (Euskal PEN)
Date:01/01/2005
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Jamal Khashoggi Campaign

Two sides of a flyer (known as 'postcards' in PEN's campaigns) used during one of the American Centre's 2018 campaigns, which called attention to the assasination of journalist Jamal...

PEN centre:American Centre  (PEN America)
Date:01/01/2018
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H.G. Wells in Bombay article

Copy of "H.G. Wells in Bombay," The Indian P.E.N. 5, no. 1 (1 January 1939): 1. This article, published in The Indian P.E.N., the All-India Centre's original internal editorial,...

Supporting Oscar López Rivera

Photograph of Rubis Camacho, on the left, and José Muratti, president of the Puerto Rican Centre (2014-16) wearing shirts on which the logo "32 X Oscar" can be seen....

PEN centre:Puerto Rican Centre  (PEN Club de Puerto Rico)
Date:16/10/2014
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The Euro-Mediterranean Organising Committee's decision

Electronic document confirming the creation of The Euro-Mediterranean Circle of Writers for Peace, 2013, f. 1. This document explains the steps and decisions taken by the Euro-Mediterranean Organising Committee...

PEN centre:Portuguese Centre  (PEN Clube Português)
Date:01/01/2013
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Dinner with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Invitation to a dinner with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, vice president of PEN International (2018-), at the India Restaurant in Perth, Australia. The evening featured a discussion on the topic:...

Human rights and free expression conference

Photograph of the audience at a conference titled Por la Libertad de Expresión y los Derechos Humanos, which took place in Asunción on 2 November 2017 and was held...

PEN centre:Paraguayan Centre  (PEN Paraguay)
Date:02/11/2017
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Empty chair at human rights conference

An empty chair set with a white lily and crucifix as an altar to commemorate the 25th year since the death of sixteen journalists in Paraguay. This altar was...

PEN centre:Paraguayan Centre  (PEN Paraguay)
Date:02/11/2017
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PEN members at human rights conference

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...

PEN centre:Paraguayan Centre  (PEN Paraguay)
Date:02/11/2017
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Article about Ma Thida's emprisonment

Copy of D. Fushman, Katharine. "Ma Thida of Burma, Novelist and Doctor, is Jailed for 'Unlawful Literature'," PEN Newsletter, no. 23 (15 March 1999): 3, describing the work and...

PEN centre:Myanmar Centre  (ပဲန်မြန်မာ)
Date:15/03/1999
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Moscow Centre supporting Oleg Sentsov

Photograph of members of the Moscow Centre's Board showing their support for the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who was arrested on 11 May 2014 under charges of terrorism and...

PEN centre:Moscow Centre  (ПЭН-Москва)
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Campaign for Alexey Malobrodsky

Photograph of a demonstrator holding a sign asking for the liberation of Alexey Malobrodsky, a Russian theatre producer who was arrested in June 2017 under charges of fraud as...

PEN centre:Moscow Centre  (ПЭН-Москва)
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Lev Ponomariov at protest rally in 2018

Photograph of protestors taking part in the For Us and Our Children demonstration in Moscow on 28 October 2018, with the human rights activist Lev Ponomaryov standing at the...

PEN centre:Moscow Centre  (ПЭН-Москва)
Date:28/10/2018
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European Parliament support Sentsov

Photograph of members of the European Parliament showing their support for Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who was arrested on 11 May 2014 under charges of terrorism and sentenced to...

PEN centre:Moscow Centre  (ПЭН-Москва)
Date:14/06/2018
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Demonstrators at the Embassy of Uzbekistan

Photograph of demonstrators in front of the Embassy of Uzbekistan, in Moscow. This demonstration, which took place on 2 April 2012, was organised by Russian photojournalist Victoria Ivleva, second...

PEN centre:Moscow Centre  (ПЭН-Москва)
Date:02/04/2012
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Demonstration for Oleg Sentsov

Photograph of Alexander Podrabinek, Russian journalist, writer and human rights activist, interviewing a participant during a demonstration held by the Moscow Centre on 21 August 2018 in Moscow. The...

PEN centre:Moscow Centre  (ПЭН-Москва)
Date:21/08/2018
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Demonstrator advocating for Oleg Sentsov

Photograph of a demonstrator speaking with a passerby during a demonstration held by the Moscow Centre, on 21 August 2018, in Moscow. The demonstrators were asking for the liberation...

PEN centre:Moscow Centre  (ПЭН-Москва)
Date:21/08/2018
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Resolution supporting Václav Havel

Resolution issued by the East German Centre (here referred to as PEN Zentrums DDR) in Berlin on 1 March 1989. In this resolution the Centre pledges its support and...

PEN centre:German Centre  (PEN-Zentrum Deutschland)
Date:01/03/1989
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Ivan Herceg in Berlin

Photograph of the Croatian writer and actor Ivan Herceg holding a sign that reads "Kome ću se predatija, a kome ti? koliko ćemo mjesta ostaviti usebi jedni za druge...