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...
Writing the Future in Indigenous Languages' poster
Poster for a Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee meeting titled Writing the Future in Indigenous Languages that was held in San Cristóbal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico, on...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Torner speaking during the 84th Congress
Photograph of Carles Torner, executive director of PEN International (2014-20) and chair of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (1996-2002), speaking at a panel event during the 84th PEN...
Speed dating event in Pune
Photograph of a 'speed dating' event between translators and authors that took place at the 84th PEN International Congress in Pune, India, which was held on 25-29 September 2018...
Lokdun presenting at TLRC meeting
Photograph of Lokdun, vice-president of the Tibetan Writers Abroad Centre (2016-22), presenting at panel event during a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee held in Biel/Bienne on...
Freedom of Expression panel in Biel/Bienne
Photograph of members who spoke on a panel about Freedom of Expression and Linguistic Rights at a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee held in Biel/Bienne on...
Zaw Tun honours Alix Parodi
Photograph of Zaw Tun, chair of the Myanmar Centre's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, on the right, honouring Alix Parodi, secretary general and treasurer (2016-21) and president of the...
Diagana presents Soninké poetry anthology
Photograph of Kissima Diagana, member of the Mauritanian Centre, presenting an anthology of Soninké poetry at a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee that was held in...
Panel on linguistic rights in Africa
Photograph of a panel about linguistic rights in Africa that took place during a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee held in Biel/Bienne on 21-24 June 2018....
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...
TLRC in Diyarbakir-Amed
Photograph of members of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee in Diyarbakir-Amed in 2005. The TLRC met in Turkey for The International PEN Diyarbakir Seminar on Cultural Diversity, which...
PEN Diyarbakir Seminar
Photograph of the panel at The International PEN Diyarbakir Seminar on Cultural Diversity, which was organised by PEN International in collaboration with the Kurdish Centre and held in Diyarbakir-Amed...
TLRC meeting in Bengaluru
Photograph of a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee that was held on 26-29 April 2017 in Bengaluru, India. This meeting led to the creation of the...
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...
Women's Day panel in Johannesburg
Photograph of the Womens’s Day panel at a meeting of the PEN African Network and PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which took place in Johannesburg on 10-11...
Diarra, Mintegi and Abraham in Johannesburg
Photograph of panellists at a meeting of the PEN African Network and PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which took place in Johannesburg on 10-11 March 2016. From...
TLRC meeting in Johannesburg
Photograph of delegates at a meeting of the PEN African Network and PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which took place in Johannesburg on 10-11 March 2016. From...
TLRC delegates in Johannesburg
Photograph of Centre delegates at a meeting of the PEN African Network and PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which took place in Johannesburg on 10-11 March 2016....
Closing of the Johannesburg meeting
Photograph of delegates at the closing ceremony of a meeting of the PEN African Network and PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which took place in Johannesburg on...
Panel at the 79th Congress
Photograph of the panel at the 79th PEN International Congress in Reykjavík, which was held on 9-12 September 2013 and titled Digital Frontiers: Linguistic Rights and Freedom of Speech....
To Be Translated Or Not To Be report
Front covers in four languages (English, French, German and Catalan) of a report titled To Be Translated Or Not To Be by PEN International and Institut Ramon Llull that...
TLRC members at Girona Meeting
Photograph of Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee members in Girona for a meeting held there on 11-13 May 2011, at which the Girona Manifesto on Linguistic Rights was signed....
Jolicoeur and Samba Traoré in Johannesburg
Photograph of Louis Jolicoeur (on the right), chair of the Quebecois Centre's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (2019-21), speaking about the Quebec Declaration on Literary Translation and Translators at...
The World Conference on Linguistic Rights
Photograph of delegates from 61 NGOs and 41 PEN Centres, as well as 40 global experts in linguistic rights, at the World Conference on Linguistic Rights, which was held...
Carles Torner presents the UDLR
Photograph of Carles Torner, executive director of PEN International (2014-20) and chair of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee (1996-2002), presenting the Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights at the...
PEN's Bulletin of Selected Books
Front cover of Bulletin of Selected Books / Choix de notices critiques by PEN International, Vol. 6 no. 1 (March 1955). The coinciding of missions in areas of promoting...
Translation scheme announced in P.E.N. News
Extract from P.E.N. News, November 1928: 6. This particular issue of P.E.N. News contains an article titled "Translation Scheme" that reports on a recent agreement made between what...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Glenys M. Roberts wins Translation Challenge
Photograph of Claire Richards, on the left, and Glenys M. Roberts, on the right, at the Her Gyfieithu (Translation Challenge) awards ceremony, which took place on 4 August 2016....
TLRC meeting in Girona in 2014
Photograph of delegates at a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee that was hosted by the Catalan Centre and held at Centre Cultural La Mercè in Girona...
TLRC delegates in Bengaluru
Photograph of PEN members at a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee that was held on 26-29 April 2017 in Bengaluru, India. From left to right are:...
TLRC Meeting in Bengaluru
Photograph of all the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee delegates who gathered in Bengaluru, India, for a meeting held on 26-29 April 2017. PEN Centres from Switzerland, Norway, Kazakhstan,...
Presentation at TLRC meeting in Biel/Bienne
Photograph of panellists during a presentation at a meeting of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which was held in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, on 21-14 June 2018. From left to...
Poetry event during TLRC meeting in Biel/Bienne
Photograph of Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee delegates at a poetry evening held at the Neues Museum in Biel/Bienne. This event took place whilst delegates were gathered in Switzerland...
Biel/Bienne TLRC meeting poster
Poster for a Translation and Linguistics Rights Committee meeting that was hosted by the Suisse Romand Centre and held in Biel/Bienne on 21-24 June 2018. The title and theme...
TLRC meeting in Biel/Bienne in 2018
Photograph of Translation and Linguistics Rights Committee members gathered for a group photo after a meeting held in Biel/Bienne on 21-24 June 2018, which was hosted by the Suisse...
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...
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...
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...
TLRC meeting in Barcelona
Photograph of a meeting organised by PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which took place on 21-23 April 2015 in Barcelona. At this meeting the Quebec Declaration on...
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...