PEN statements
Ukrainian literature and culture should be heard around the world: Resolution of the IX Regional Meeting of PEN Centres
Representatives of various PEN Centres – PEN Spain, PEN Basque, PEN Norway, PEN Slovenia, PEN International (WIPC), PEN Belgium, PEN Canada, and PEN Ukraine – gathered in Kyiv in October 2025. ...
Statement on the broadcast suspend of Voice of America and financial suspend of Radio Liberty
We could have expected Radio Liberty, Voice of America, or other media committed to truth and democracy to be silenced by Russia or other totalitarian states. What we could not have expected is that this ...
PEN Ukraine’s address to writers worldwide
Dear friends and colleagues, We are living in dark times. Freedom and dignity are being challenged from many places, often from unexpected sources. But we should not give up. Freedom is not a "fact", ...
PEN Ukraine Executive Board’s statement in support of journalist Cecilia Sala
On December 19, 2024, Italian journalist Cecilia Sala was detained by Iranian police while reporting from Tehran. Today, she is being held in Tehran's Evin Prison, notorious for holding dissidents ...
We are here for you: PEN Ukraine statement in support of the people of Georgia
We, Ukrainian writers, translators, journalists, human rights defenders, scholars, publishers, artists, express our solidarity with Georgian colleagues and the whole Georgian society in their struggle ...
Statement on the murder of journalist Viktoria Roshchyna
We, journalists and media professionals, express our deepest condolences to the family and colleagues of Viktoria Roshchyna, a brave and talented Ukrainian journalist who died in Russian captivity at ...
PEN Ukraine supported the statement of the Media Movement against pressure on the independent Ukrainian media Texty
PEN Ukraine joins the media and human rights organizations that participate in the Media Movement and have issued a statement in support of the independent Ukrainian media Texty (Texty.org.ua). On June ...
Ukraine must win this war: Resolution of the VIII Regional Meeting of PEN Centres
We, representatives of PEN Georgia, PEN France, PEN Netherlands, and Catalan PEN, gathered in Kyiv in the second part of May 2024. We travelled to the capital of Ukraine despite Russia’s continued ...
Statement of Ukrainian non-governmental organizations on the threat to democracy and human rights in Georgia
We, the representatives of Ukrainian society and independent civil society organizations, are watching with pain the events in Georgia that have erupted as a result of the current government's persistent ...
Ukraine: Two years since Russian full-scale invasion, justice and accountability must prevail
22 February 2024: 24 February will mark two years since the Russian Federation launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. According to the UN, 10,378 civilians have been killed and 19,632 injured as of ...