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Türkiye: Big tech should protect free speech and resist state censorship

Ahead of Türkiye’s municipal elections on March 31 2024, ARTICLE 19, Human Rights Watch and 19 rights groups and journalists’ organizations jointly call on social media platforms to uphold the …

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Literary Events

Voices of Freedom event: a reading series with exiled writers

When: Sunday, March 24, 2024 at 2:30 – 6 p.m. Where: Hirut Jazz Cafe, 2050 Danforth Avenue Step into a realm of emancipated voices at an afternoon of storytelling Toronto’s …

Black Bodies, White Spaces | Event in Toronto

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International Women’s Day: Take Action for Pınar Selek (Türkiye)

As the world celebrates International Women’s Day 2024, PEN International features the case of sociologist, writer, feminist, and PEN Türkiye member Pınar Selek, who has faced a decades-long trial over …

Take Action for Soulaiman Raissouni

Take Action for Iryna Danylovych

From the Archives

TIFA 2022 — The Freedom to Write and to Read: Standing with Salman Rushdie

“Free Speech is the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.” — Salman Rushdie PEN Canada, Penguin Random House Canada, Toronto International Festival of Authors and Writers’ Trust of Canada …

Q&A with Chris Tenove on Toxic Disinformation