Chinese Authorities Must Release “Blank Paper” Protesters and Allow Free Expression on COVID-19 Pandemic
We call on the Chinese government to release Cao Zhixin (曹芷馨), Li Siqi (李思琪), Li Yuanjing (李元婧), and Zhai Dengrui (翟登蕊). More
DARE: House Passes Bill Including Regulations on Online Political Ads
House Democrats set vote on H.R. 1, a wide-ranging bill that takes on transparency about how elections are funded and requires presidential candidate... More
Dareen Tatour Reads “A Poet’s Hallucinations”
Loneliness came in, taking me by surprise / Without knocking on my door / Like an impolite guest. / It sat at my desk / Picked up my pen… More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
59% of Americans don't agree with Trump that the media is "the enemy of the American people", head organizers arrested at New York women's march, and more. More
DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression
WikiLeaks releases largest leak in C.I.A. history, International Women's Day marks a Day Without Women Protests around the country, and more. More
March Featured Cases: Celebrating Courageous Women Writers
On International Women’s Day, we highlight the cases of three women who are courageously exercising their right to freedom of expression in the face of dire threats and working… More
International Women’s Day: Today and Every Day
She sits at her desk, reading lamp above her, smoking a cigarette as she reads through handwritten lines of poetry. She is Liu Xia.March 8 is International Women’s Day,… More
PEN International Writes from the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women
PEN International's Sarah Clarke writes from the UN Commission on the Status of Women, where PEN was invited to comment on the status of violence against women writers. More