Ron Butlin on Day of the Imprisoned Writer
Photograph of the Scottish author Ron Butlin taking part in a protest event held outside Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on PEN International's Day of the Imprisoned Writer, 15 November,...
Day of the Dead logo
Poster designed for PEN International's Day of the Dead by the Guadalajara Centre, with artwork by Maxine Young. On 2 November 2011, members of the public, members of staff...
First Day of the Dead event in London
Photograph of PEN members at the inaugural protest event held for PEN International's Day of the Dead. On 2 November 2011, members of the public, members of staff from...
Şanar Yurdatapan at Istanbul University rally
Photograph of the Turkish journalist Şanar Yurdatapan speaking at a protest rally held at Istanbul University on 11 March 1997. Standing just behind Yurdatapan is Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, international secretary...
Rally at Istanbul University
Photograph of Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, international secretary (2004-07) and vice-president emeritus of PEN International, speaking at a protest rally held at Istanbul University on 11 March 1997. To Leedom-Ackerman's left...
PEN members at Istanbul University rally
Photograph of PEN members at a protest rally held at Istanbul University on 11 March 1997. Among them are: Alexander Tkachenko, founding member and general secretary of the Russian...
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...
Women writers protest at New York Congress
Photograph of delegates in a debate at the 48th PEN International Congress in New York, USA, which was held on 12-17 June 1986 and titled The Writer’s Imagination And...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Empty Chair Campaign in Kyiv
Photograph of the Ukrainian Centre's Empty Chair Campaign, which was staged in Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv on 15 November 2018 - the date of the annually observed Day of...
Demonstration for Sentsov in Lviv
Photograph of Ukrainian Centre members taking part in a demonstration organised by the Centre that was held during the 2018 Lviv Book Forum, which took place on 19-23 September...
Two poems from "Rapid Action"
Two poems: im namem dem demokratie by Peter Fahr and Die kurzen und die langen Beine by Zsuzsanna Gahse. These poems are extracted from a publication the Swiss German...
Literary call out to protest Iraq War
Electronically typed letter from Peter K. Wehrli to members of the Swiss German Centre, Zurich, 23 March 2003, f. 1. In this letter Wehrli, Board member of the Swiss...