PEN at the UN Human Rights Council: Will China Listen?
In China, as we documented in The PEN Report: Creativity and Constraint in Today’s China, repression by the government is on the rise, and continues to grow in the… More
PEN Presses UN on Free Expression in Nigeria and China
PEN's submissions to the UN on Nigeria and China spotlight widespread censorship and dangers for writers, musicians, and filmmakers. More
PEN Ups Pressure in Mexico as Another Journalist Is Murdered
The murder this week of Jaime Guadalupe González Dominguez, who edited and reported for the community news web site Ojinaga Noticias in Ojinaga, Chihuahua, is the first killing of… More
Venezuelan PEN Challenges Country’s Human Rights Record at UN
Last Friday in Geneva, it was Venezuela’s turn to be examined by the Universal Periodic Review of the United Nations. Venezuelan PEN worked closely with International PEN to submit… More
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PEN America On 
As @JoyVBehar points out, Americans' knowledge of the Holocaust is declining even as the movement to ban books—including #Holocaust-themed works such as @jodipicoult's The Storyteller—is accelerating.
Behar also gives a shoutout to 100-year-old Grace Linn! #JoysBannedBookClub https://twitter.com/TheView/status/1639315584860192772
Outstanding piece by @andreacgore, Vacek Chair in pharmacology/professor of psychology at UT-Austin, defending faculty tenure against SB 18. She argues that immunotherapy would not exist if UT-Austin had not given tenure to its discoverer. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/university-texas-andrea-gore-professor-tenure-17816783.php
What does academic freedom mean now, and how might it change?
Here's our whole Future Trends Forum conversation with @ACEducation and @PENamerica researchers:
https://youtu.be/nQ8Kl0XJIr0
#FTTE
HT @roxannriskin