PEN believes the US-Africa Leaders’ Summit, ending today in Washington, is an important moment in the promotion of US engagement on the continent. However, the development of US-African trade relations must be paralleled by support for the cementing and extension...
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Dear PEN Members, Dear Friends, Apologies for the break in my letters. I have been on the road since early May visiting PEN Centres in South America, Europe and Asia. First, as many of you know, Carles Torner has stepped...
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Dear PEN Members, Dear friends, I hope you won’t mind a more personal monthly letter. I am just back from Burma, now Myanmar, for the first time in a quarter century. From 1980 through much of the ‘80’s I was...
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Dear PEN members, Dear friends, As many of you know, Haroon Siddiqui (former International Board member) and I were in India for three weeks in January, for the launch of the new Delhi PEN Centre and to visit the older...
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Dear Colleagues, As part of the social media aspect of PEN’s Sochi Olympics campaign- Out in the Cold – we are planning an online Thunderclap action to highlight recently-passed draconian legislation that has the potential to strangle free expression in...
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