On this International Women’s Day, PEN SA reiterates its condemnation of the intimidation and threats of bodily harm and rape made by EFF supporters to Radio 7o2 presenter, Karima Brown, following EFF leader, Julius Malema’s, public dissemination of her telephone number...
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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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The 8th of March marks International Women’s Day, observed each year to reflect on the progress made for women’s rights, to call for change, and to honour those women who are agents of change at great personal risk and cost....
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Fatima Naoot (Egypt) is a poet and former parliamentary candidate, having run for a parliamentary seat in late 2015. As well as being the chief editor of the literary magazine Qaws Qazah (The Rainbow), she is also a regular columnist...
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‘Beyond those gates, another world, another race, a people poisoned and oppressed by woe; they stared wearily at us, the prisoners we faced, with sunken eyes, lack-lustre, circled with sorrow’ – extract from ‘From Evin to Raja’I Shah’ in Prison...
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