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. In 2024, PEN International raised concerns ...

A new report finds scholars and university students face frequent and pervasive attacks on their academic freedom and the autonomy of their institutions — from North America to the Middle East, Asia, ...

Lori Sterling is currently senior counsel at Bennett Jones LLP and an experienced board director. Lori has over 30 years experience in both federal and provincial governments. At the federal level, ...

As every year, on November 15, the Day of the Imprisoned Writer, PEN calls for urgent international action to protect writers ...

This year for Day of the Imprisoned Writer, PEN is calling for urgent international action from November 15 – 29 to protect ...

Jose Rubén Zamora Marroquín, a leading Guatemalan journalist and founder of elPeriódico, has faced threats, criminalization and arbitrary detention for his investigations into corruption within ...

Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy campaigner, writer, and founder of the now-shuttered Apple Daily newspaper, has been imprisoned in solitary confinement since December 2020 and now faces prosecution under ...

British-Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah remains arbitrarily imprisoned after serving an unjust five-year prison sentence in Egypt on politically motivated charges, in a grossly unfair ...

Journalist, writer and poet, Kaciaryna Andrejeva (real name Bachvałava) is serving an eight-year prison sentence in Belarus on bogus charges of ‘state treason’. Andrejeva is currently being held in a ...

This year for Day of the Imprisoned Writer, PEN is calling for urgent international action from November 15 – 29 to protect four writers targeted for their peaceful free expression … ...