May 3 marks World Press Freedom Day, and for 2018, PEN SA – along with PEN International and other PEN Centres worldwide – is focusing our attention on disturbing ongoings in Malta. Six months ago, Daphne Caruana Galizia, a renowned journalist...
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To mark International Women’s Day 2018, PEN International and PEN Centres around the world today launch the PEN International Women’s Manifesto. THE PEN INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S MANIFESTO Passed with unanimity at The Assembly of Delegates of PEN International 83rd World Congress...
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Dr Stella Nyanzi, prominent Ugandan academic, feminist and LGBTI+ campaigner, was arrested for speaking her mind. In April last year, she was detained by Ugandan authorities for a post on Facebook that called Yoweri Museveni – the President of Uganda...
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“The murder of two journalists serves as a stark reminder that the Guatemalan authorities must do more to protect its journalists,” said PEN International today, after two Guatemalan journalists were murdered in Suchitepéquez last week. PEN South Africa joins our colleagues at...
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PEN South Africa notes with gladness that Cameroonian writer and Stony Brook college professor Patrice Nganang has been freed from detention in Cameroon. As Suzanne Nossel, Executive Director of PEN America wrote in a press release earlier this week: He was...
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