Photograph: Swedish Minister of Culture and Democracy Alice Bah Kuhnke PEN South Africa and the Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa (PRAESA) held the first in a series of discussions on children’s literacy development and literature...
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The Santa Maria dello Spasimo in Palermo, a 500 year old unfinished Church, now an open air theatre and music venue. By Dawn Garisch I’ve always had a thing about islands. I lived on one as a child, I was...
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15 January 2015 PEN International calls for the immediate release of 12 academics in Turkey, arrested for signing a statement denouncing attacks on ‘Kurdish and other peoples’ and for investigations into 1,116 other academics to be dropped. Turkish authorities detained...
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15 January 2016 As human rights defender Dr. Al-Singace enters 300th day of hunger strike, NGOs call for his immediate release NGOs from the around the world call for the immediate release of prisoner of conscience Dr. Abduljalil al-Singace on...
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Deadline: 20 February 2016 The Department of Journalism at Wits University, together with PEN South Africa, is embarking on a series of events in 2016 to encourage public discourse on freedom of expression in South Africa and to examine the...
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