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PEN America Speaks: How We Defended and Celebrated Free Expression This Week

AdvocacyMay 26, 2023

PEN America works tirelessly to defend free expression, support persecuted writers, and promote literary culture. Here are some of the latest ways PEN America is speaking out. More

Ahead of United Nations Review, PEN America Finds Chinese Government Has Failed to Protect Women’s Rights

Press ReleaseMay 11, 2023

“The May 12 review between the Chinese delegation and the UN Committee provides an opportunity for international scrutiny and accountability for the Chinese government’s violation of women’s rights,” said… More

PEN America Reacts to the Passing of Artist-Activist Harry Belafonte

Press ReleaseApril 25, 2023

Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America, made the following statement about the passing of Harry Belafonte:  "Having had the privilege of collaborating with Harry Belafonte to advance human rights I… More

PEN America and Amani: Africa Creative Defence Network Call on Ugandan President to Veto Anti-LGBTQI Rights Law, Condemning it as a Serious Strike Against Free Expression

Press ReleaseMarch 23, 2023

“We have seen a troubling rise in cases of Ugandan artists and cultural professionals who have been arrested merely on the grounds of telling the stories of LGBTQI+ communities… More

PEN America Expresses Dismay Over Harvard’s Denial of Fellowship to Former Human Rights Watch Executive Director Ken Roth

Press ReleaseJanuary 5, 2023

There is no suggestion that Roth's criticisms of Israel are in any way based on racial or religious animus. Withholding Roth's participation in a human rights program due to his own staunch… More

New Report: Troubling Rise in Restrictions on Artistic Freedom and Human Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean

Press ReleaseDecember 15, 2022

“In the last few years, political and social tensions have risen dramatically in Latin America and the Caribbean amid the confluence of  grave crises and dramatic changes. Authoritarian governments… More

PEN America Recognizes the Courage and Activism of Nobel Peace Prize Winners in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus

Press ReleaseOctober 7, 2022

“Living under a government determined to break the will of even its most stalwart critics, Bialiatski has fought for human rights unflinchingly for decades, sacrificing his freedom, safety, and… More

PEN America Calls for the Immediate Acquittal and Release of Mongolian Activist Munkhbayar Chuluundorj Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Protesting China-Mongolia Relations

Press ReleaseSeptember 13, 2022

“The harsh and unjust verdict in Munkhbayar Chuluundorj’s trial is a grave violation of the fundamental right to free expression,” says Liesl Gerntholtz, director of the PEN/Barbey Freedom to… More

Detailing Severe Human Rights Abuses in Belarus, Leaders Call on the UN Human Rights Council to Extend the Mandate of the Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Belarus

newsJune 28, 2022

In Taped Reading, Author Margaret Atwood Reads Letter from her Belarusian Translator About the Arrests and Jailing of Writers, Journalists and Publishers   By Suzanne Trimel (NEW YORK)-- The severe deterioration of… More

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Russia’s ‘Reckless and Dangerous Aggression’ Threaten Ukraine’s Hard-Won Democatic and Human Rights Advances

Press ReleaseFebruary 24, 2022

PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel: "Ukraine's hard-won democratic and human rights gains, and its very independence as a nation, risk obliteration as a result of Russia's reckless and dangerous… More

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