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Chinese Authorities Must Release “Blank Paper” Protesters and Allow Free Expression on COVID-19 Pandemic

Open LetterMarch 8, 2023

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

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DARE: House Passes Bill Including Regulations on Online Political Ads

News DigestMarch 8, 2019

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”

PoetryDecember 5, 2017

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

News DigestMarch 9, 2017

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

News DigestMarch 8, 2017

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

Case Update
By: Shreya Balhara | March 8, 2016

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

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By: Sarah Hoffman | March 7, 2014

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

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By: PEN America | March 12, 2013

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

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