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01.09.2021Open Call for the 2021 Drahomán Prize
On September 1, the founding organizations of the Drahomán Prize, an award for translators from ...
23.07.2021Statement in support of PEN Belarus
We stand in solidarity with colleagues from the Belarusian PEN and strongly condemn crackdowns and ...
06.05.2021The Countries Between Us: PEN Ukraine and PEN America are organizing an online literary event
On May 25 at 7 p.m. Ukraine time (12 p.m. EDT in the US) PEN ...
23.04.2021Claudia Dathe is the first laureate of the Drahomán Prize
The first laureate of the Drahomán Prize—an award for translators from the Ukrainian—is the German ...

Freed Ukrainian journalists challenge colleagues worldwide to help imprisoned Crimean civic journalists
On the eve of the first World Press Freedom Day since journalists Roman Sushchenko and Stanislav Aseyv were freed from Russian or Russian-controlled militant captivity, ... read more
New Russian law could cut Crimea off from Ukrainian and global Internet
Halya Coynash
Russian-occupied Crimea could find itself totally cut off from the global Internet according to a bill which was adopted in its second reading on 11 April and has every chance of coming into force this year. ... read more
Russia uses ‘terrorism’ charges to silence civic journalists in occupied Crimea
Halya Coynash
Scroll down for addresses of all 23 civic activists and journalists whom Russia arrested on 27 March Three of the victims of Russia’s most ferocious attack on Crimean Tatar activists to date are civic journalists who recorded and circulated information about repression in occupied Crimea. ... read more
Remzi Bekirov, or the repression in occupied Crimea that Russia will use 20-year sentences against journalists to hide
Halya Coynash
Remzi Bekirov, a historian and tour guide by profession, became one of the first Crimean Solidarity civic journalists, reporting on armed searches, ... read more

The Imprisoned Voices of the Crimea
Mariia Semenchenko
How the Russian Federation not only persecutes and deprives the Crimean Tatars of their freedom, but tries to silence them: stories of citizen journalists and human rights defenders. ... read more
A Difficult Trade-off: Freedom of Speech and Public Security during the “Hybrid War”
Mykola Riabchuk
The reputable Denmark-based international watchdog Freemuse, which monitors the freedom of artistic expression around the globe, published its 2016 annual report, ... read more
Ukrainian activist and volunteer dies after apparent hate crime attack
Artem Myroshnychenko, a Ukrainian activist and volunteer from Bakhmut (former Artemivsk) in Donetsk oblast died on 5 December of injuries sustained during an attack in the late evening of 29 November. ... read more
The ‘terrorist threat’ Russia brought to Crimea ; six victims receive huge sentences
“Does it not strike you as strange that in the 23 years Crimea was under Ukrainian rule, there were no ‘extremists’ nor ‘terrorists’, and no ‘acts of terrorism’, ... read more

History of PEN

PEN International was founded in 1921 in London at the initiative of writers John Galsworthy and Catherine Amy Dawson Scott. PEN is an abbreviation, which stands for “poets”, “playwrights”, “essayists” and “novelists”. PEN has become one of the first international human rights organizations and the first international writers’ association. The key values of PEN are enshrined in its Charter ratified in 1948. PEN Ukraine was established in 1989.

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PEN International promotes literature and freedom of expression and is governed by the PEN Charter and the principles it embodies: unhampered transmission of thought within each nation and between all nations. Founded in 1921, PEN International connects an international community of writers from its Secretariat in London. It is a forum where writers meet freely to discuss their work; it is also a voice speaking out for writers silenced in their own countries. Through Centres in over 100 countries, PEN operates on five continents. PEN International is a non-political organisation which holds Special Consultative Status at the UN and Associate Status at UNESCO.

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