Dear PEN Members, Dear friends, First, the Board has now finished working on the PEN International Declaration on Free Expression and Digital Technologies and passed it unanimously. It is in translation and will be on its way to you very...
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Dear PEN Members, Dear friends, In some ways this was a month focused on linguistic rights. Not that the rest of our world stopped turning. In Mexico the good and the bad continued to speed in a complex spiral. President...
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Dear PEN Members, Dear friends, Hori Takeaki, Eric Lax and I have just spent several days in London, discussing PEN strategy, spending time with Laura McVeigh and the staff of our international office and talking to publishers at the London...
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Dear PEN Members, Dear friends, By now many of you will have read about our PEN International mission to Mexico. There is a great deal on the website. Please have a look. This mission was important for two reasons. First,...
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December 13, 2011 Dear PEN Members, Dear Friends, Over the last month I have been able to spend time with some twenty of our Centres in Africa and in Europe – a PEN African Network meeting in Dakar, four days...
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