17 June, 2016 20 June is World Refugee Day. As the world faces the worst refugee crisis since the end of World War II, what’s becoming increasingly clear is that world’s system for protecting refugees is not working, it is...
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17 June 2016 marks a confluence of significant anniversaries for several of PEN International’s Main Cases currently imprisoned in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is the day we celebrate the birthday of human rights defender Waleed Abu al-Khair, currently...
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The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development recently proposed the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill, which is expected to be tabled in Parliament by September, according to the Cape Argus. Gadeeja Abbas writes that as...
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Photograph of PAN and TLRC meeting members courtesy of PEN International By Raymond Louw, PEN SA Vice-President The PAN meeting was held in advance of a meeting by the PEN International Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee under the title: In...
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12 May 2016 On 3 May 2016 – international World Press Freedom Day – a court in Lima found journalist and author Rafael León Rodríguez (Rafo León) guilty of ‘aggravated defamation’ of a fellow journalist on the basis of a...
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