PEN Canada - PEN Canada celebrates literature, defends freedom …
2024年10月9日 · The International Press Institute (IPI), Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) and 26 press freedom, freedom of expression and human rights organizations vehemently condemn the arrest of three Kurdish journalists last …
About - PEN Canada
About. PEN Canada…. Helps free writers who are persecuted and, in many countries, imprisoned and tortured simply for expressing themselves. Fights censorship and defends the right to freedom of expression. PEN has intervened in a number of landmark legal cases in the name of journalistic integrity and artistic freedom. Educates Canadian ...
Canadian and Legal Affairs - PEN Canada
It is overseen by the Canadian and Legal Affairs Committee. From its inception, PEN Canada has defended the right to freedom of expression enshrined in article 2 (b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Our Canadian Issues Committee has fought censorship in more than 70 cases—from book seizures at the border and censorship in ...
Category: News - PEN Canada
Jimmy Lai to receive PEN Canada One Humanity Award. Jimmy Lai, a journalist, writer, media publisher, and pro-democracy activist, has won PEN Canada’s One Humanity Award. Lai, who has been in solitary confinement since December 2020, is currently facing …. News.
Background - PEN Canada
2024年1月10日 · Background. We are the Canadian chapter of PEN International, founded in England in 1921 to represent “Poets, Essayists and Novelists.”. PEN International was conceived by Mrs. C.A. Dawson Scott and the first PEN Club was founded shortly thereafter in London by Mrs. Scott and John Galsworthy, who would become PEN International’s first ...
PEN in the news - PEN Canada
Louise Dennys to step down as executive publisher and vice-president of Penguin Random House Canada Globe & Mail | December 20, 2022 The world must stand with Salman Rushdie and writers like him Globe…
Mission, Vision, Values - PEN Canada
MISSION. Universal Declaration of Human Rights – Article 19: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. PEN Canada is a nonpartisan organization of writers ...
Know Your Rights - PEN Canada
Learn your rights in Canada — and carry, wear and share them! PEN created 4 innovative tools to help Canadians understand their rights when dealing with authorities. These guides are essential for all socially-engaged Canadians, activists, journalists and change makers. 4. Can I …
PEN in the Community - PEN Canada
2024年5月30日 · If you would like more information about the PEN in the Community program, or to schedule a visit to your school, please contact Brendan de Caires, Executive Director, at 416 703 8448 x2223 or by email at bdecaires@pencanada.ca. During the last decade, PEN Canada’s community outreach has centred on engaging young Canadians with freedom of ...
Annual & Special Reports - PEN Canada
Annual & Special Reports. SPECIAL REPORTS. Imposing Silence: The Use of India’s Laws to Suppress Free Speech , a report by PEN Canada, PEN International and the International Human Rights Program (IHRP) at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law. Honduras: Journalism in the Shadow of Impunity , a report by PEN Canada, PEN International and ...