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Škrabec at UN panel discussion

Photograph of a panel discussion held at the United Nations headquarters in New York on 11 December 2019. This event, titled #ProtectLinguists, aimed to raise awareness of the pressing...

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Date:11/12/2019
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Enriqueta Lunez gives the keynote speech

Photograph of the poet Enriqueta Lunez giving the keynote speech at a Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee meeting titled Writing the Future in Indigenous Languages that was held in...

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Date:05/05/2019
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Nina Jaramillo at Chiapas meeting

Photograph of Nina Jaramillo, chair of the Argentinian Centre's Committee of Writers in Indigenous Languages, speaking at a Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee meeting titled Writing the Future in...

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Date:05/05/2019
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Chiapas TLRC meeting group photograph

Photograph of delegates at a Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee meeting titled Writing the Future in Indigenous Languagesthat was held in San Cristóbal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico,...

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Date:05/05/2019
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Presenting resolution on Philippines languages

Photograph of nine delegates from different islands and areas of the archipelago of the Phillipines presenting the Resolution on the Promotion of Language Justice and the Protection of the...

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Date:04/10/2019
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TLRC meeting in Chiapas

Photograph of members of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee at a meeting titled Writing the Future in Indigenous Languages that was held in San Cristóbal de las Casas...

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Date:04/05/2019
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Panel discussion at Manila Congress

Photograph of a panel discussion titled Writing the Future in Indigenous Languages underway on the first day of the 85th PEN International Congress in Manila, Philippines, which was held...

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Date:30/09/2019
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Fernand de Varennes at Manila Congress

Photograph of Fernand de Varennes, UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues (2017-), giving the keynote speech at the 85th PEN International Congress in Manila, Philippines, which was held from...

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Date:04/10/2019
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Bhasha wari in India

Photograph of students taking part in Bhasha wari, a procession in which the words ‘Truth, Freedom, Diversity’ were presented in 6,000 languages on signs to celebrate global languages. PEN...

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Date:28/09/2018
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Bhasha wari for global languages

Photograph of students taking part in Bhasha wari, a procession in which the words ‘Truth, Freedom, Diversity’ were presented in 6,000 languages on signs to celebrate global languages. PEN...

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Date:28/09/2018
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Celebrating Yiddish at Basha wari

Photograph of participants holding a sign to champion Yiddish at Bhasha wari, a procession in which the words ‘Truth, Freedom, Diversity’ were presented in 6,000 languages on signs to...

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Date:28/09/2018
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Simona Škrabec signs Donostia Protocol

Photograph of Simona Škrabec, chair of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (2014-20), signing the Donostia Protocol to Ensure Language Rights. The Donostia Protocol is a tool developed by...

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Date:17/12/2016
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Launching the Donostia Protocol

Photograph of the organising committee at the launch of the Donostia Protocol to Ensure Language Rights - a tool developed by organisations including PEN International, Linguapax, the European Language...

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Date:17/12/2016
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Culture's Oxygen report

Cover, inner cover, contents page and preface of a PEN report titled Culture's Oxygen, 2016, ff. 4. This report, which was launched on 21 February 2017 to mark International...

Students with Marita Banda

Photograph of students from the PEN club of Munali Secondary School representing their school at an interschool essay writing competition ceremony held at Lusaka Civic Centre in Lusaka (most...

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Date:[2017]
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Port Harcourt Book Festival panel

Photograph of the panel at a PEN event held during the 2014 edition of Port Harcourt Book Festival (UNESCO World Book Capital 2014) titled What Language Means to Literature:...

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Date:01/01/2014
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Protest for Egunkaria

Photograph of demonstrators at a protest held outside the offices of the Basque newspaper Egunkaria on 20 February 2013, the day the newspaper was forcibly shut down. Egunkaria, which...

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Date:20/02/2013
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Kyrgyzstan Government delegates in Cardiff

Photograph of representatives of the Kyrgystan Government with members of the Welsh Centre in Cardiff during their visit to Wales during the week beginning 7 March 2016. From left...

PEN centre:Welsh Centre  (Wales PEN Cymru)
Date:[2016]
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Stage set for Standing Together

Photograph of the stage set for Standing Together/Efo’n Gilydd/ Pia Vınderime/Piştgiriye - a night of songs and poetry in Kurdish and in Welsh that took place on 26 June...

PEN centre:Welsh Centre  (Wales PEN Cymru)
Date:26/06/2018
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Ali Sizer with Kurdish performers

Photograph of the musician Ali Sizer with a group of women from the Kurdish Community Centre in Newport rehearsing for Standing Together/Efo’n Gilydd/ Pia Vınderime/Piştgiriye - A night of...

PEN centre:Welsh Centre  (Wales PEN Cymru)
Date:13/05/2018
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Performing Standing Together

Photograph of the performance of Standing Together/Efo’n Gilydd/ Pia Vınderime/Piştgiriye - a night of songs and poetry in Kurdish and in Welsh that took place on 26 June 2018...

PEN centre:Welsh Centre  (Wales PEN Cymru)
Date:26/06/2018
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PEN International commemorates Lobsang Chokta

Electronically typed letter from PEN International to the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre, London, 8 January 2016; heading: «PEN International», ff. 2. In this letter Jennifer Clement, president of PEN...

PEN centre:Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre  (བོད་ཀྱི་པེན།)
Date:08/01/2016
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Speakers at Language, Culture and Identity event

Photograph of speakers at a panel discussion held on 7 April 2017 at Hotel Norbu House in Dharamsala titled Intersection of Language, Culture and Identity. This event was co-organised...

PEN centre:Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre  (བོད་ཀྱི་པེན།)
Date:07/04/2017
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Panellists and guests at Norbu House

Photograph of guests and speakers gathered for a panel discussion held on 7 April 2017 at Hotel Norbu House in Dharamsala titled Intersection of Language, Culture and Identity. This...

PEN centre:Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre  (བོད་ཀྱི་པེན།)
Date:07/04/2017
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Language, Culture and Identity event flyer

Flyer for a panel discussion held on 7 April 2017 at Hotel Norbu House in Dharamsala titled Intersection of Language, Culture and Identity. This event was co-organised by the...

PEN centre:Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre  (བོད་ཀྱི་པེན།)
Date:07/04/2017
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Audience with the Dalai Lama

Photograph of Carles Torner, on the right, executive director of PEN International (2014-20), and Jennifer Clement, centre, president of PEN International (2015-), at an audience with His Holiness the...

PEN centre:Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre  (བོད་ཀྱི་པེན།)
Date:04/05/2017
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Protest in Santiago, 2017

Poster created to advertise a demonstration that was organised by the Chilean Centre and staged at Plaza de la Cultura in Santiago on 7 November 2017. This protest, titled...

PEN centre:Chilean Centre  (PEN Club Chile)
Date:07/11/2017
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Declaració Universal dels Drets Lingüístics

Front cover of 'Declaració Universal dels Drets Lingüístics', a declaration that was issued and created by the Institut d’Edicions de la Diputació de Barcelona in April 1998. This declaration...

PEN centre:Catalan Centre  (PEN Català)
Date:08/04/1998
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Speaker at the World Conference on Linguistic Rights

Photograph of a speaker addressing an audience at the 1996 World Conference on Linguistic Rights. This conference was organised by PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee and Escarré...

PEN centre:Catalan Centre  (PEN Català)
Date:08/06/1996
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Girona Manifesto on Linguistic Rights

Photograph of members at a meeting organised by the Catalan Centre and PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which took place on 11-13 May 2011 in Girona. At...

PEN centre:Catalan Centre  (PEN Català)
Date:13/05/2011
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World Conference on Linguistic Rights

Photograph of speakers at the World Conference on Linguistic Rights, which was organised by PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee and Escarré International Center for Ethnic Minorities and...

PEN centre:Catalan Centre  (PEN Català)
Date:08/06/1996
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World Poetry Day 2014

Brochure for a event that was organised by the Bolivian Centre as part of World Poetry Day celebrations and took place in Cochabamba on 21 March 2014. The event...

PEN centre:Bolivian Centre  (PEN Bolivia)
Date:21/03/2014
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The Donostia Protocol

Photograph of representatives from various European associations on stage at an international summit that took place at the Kursaal Kongresu Jauregia (Kursaal Congress Centre) in Donostia-San Sebastián on 17...

PEN centre:Basque Centre  (Euskal PEN)
Date:17/12/2016
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Sámi writers in Bilbao

Photograph of Sámi writers and translators from Norway, Sweden, and Finland taking part in an event held in Bilbao in June 2016. This event was organised by the Basque...

PEN centre:Basque Centre  (Euskal PEN)
Date:01/06/2016
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Brochure on the history of Euskaldunon Egunkaria

Brochure titled "The Egunkaria Case: The First Newspaper in Basque" published by the Basque Centre in April 2008. This brochure outlines the facts surrounding the forced closure of Euskaldunon...

PEN centre:Basque Centre  (Euskal PEN)
Date:01/04/2008
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Quebecois and Danish Centres meeting

Photograph of a meeting between Marianne Østergaard, treasurer of the Danish Centre, and members of the Quebecois Centre, which took place at the Café au Temps Perdu, in Quebec...

PEN centre:Quebecois Centre  (Centre québécois du P.E.N. International)
Date:04/06/2019
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Event celebrating Romany literature

Photograph of participants attending an event titled Približimo se romskoj poeziji (Let’s Get Closer to Romany Poetry), which took place on 3 December 2018 in Zagreb. This event was...