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Calling All Journalists: Free Digital Security Training Workshops
This week, German media development nonprofit DW Akademie is offering Digital Security Training Workshops to help journalists protect themselves online. More
From Vivarium
Do I have another charge on earth? // Who else sees these pine limbs downed by lightning / branches quaking in thunder / needles thick on the forest floor?… More
Thanksgiving Human Rights Advocacy Roundup
Important resolutions at the UN on protecting journalists and privacy; a PEN lawsuit to fight dragnet surveillance; a u-turn on censorship on Skype in China; and a PEN event… More
Cambodian Land Rights Activist and Protest-Songwriter Released on Bail
PEN welcomes the decision taken by Cambodia's Supreme Court on November 22, 2013 to release on bail Yorm Bopha, a Cambodian land rights activist and protest-songwriter, pending a re-hearing… More
The PEN Ten with Roxane Gay
Do writers have a collective purpose? I'm not sure, but what we do is write the world as we see it. We witness and record and remember and when… More
Giving Thanks for Books
In honor of Thanksgiving this week, we asked PEN staff and interns, "For what book are you most thankful?" Their answers—and reasons them—varied widely to include religious texts, momentos… More
Writing About Children and War
Since children are the most vulnerable citizens of any society, it seems rather obvious that they are the citizens most likely to be negatively affected by war. Until very… More
Tunisia: Blogger Denied Pardon
PEN continues to call for the immediate and unconditional release of blogger Jabeur Mejri, whose seven-and-a-half year sentence for expressing allegedly blasphemous views online was confirmed by the Court… More
Veteran Journalist Permanently Released, Newspaper Re-Opened
PEN welcomes the permanent release of Rodney Sieh, founder and editor of the award-winning newspaper FrontPageAfrica. More
Where Impunity Reigns: An Interview with Oluwafiropo Ewenla of Nigerian PEN
In honor of the International Day to End Impunity, we're publishing our interview with Oluwafiropo Ewenla of Nigerian PEN about free expression in Nigeria, human rights, and his trip… More
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