At the UN, Vietnam boasts a “dedication” to human rights, but their record tells a different story. Writers, journalists, and human rights defenders in Vietnam face harassment and arbitrary detention. Reprisals like those against writer Pham Doan Trang reflect the grim reality of ongoing human rights violations. Read more in our latest blog: https://lnkd.in/ebZ3JxQx
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PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the United States and worldwide. We champion the freedom to write, recognizing the power of the word to transform the world. Our mission is to unite writers and their allies to celebrate creative expression and defend the liberties that make it possible. PEN America is the largest of more than 100 centers of PEN International. For more than 90 years, we have been working together with our colleagues in the international PEN community to ensure that people everywhere have the freedom to create literature, to convey information and ideas, to express their views, and to make it possible for everyone to access the views, ideas, and literatures of others. In doing so, we are building on a tradition begun in the years following World War I and carried forward by thousands of American writers. Our strength is our membership—a nationwide community of novelists, journalists, editors, poets, essayists, playwrights, publishers, translators, agents, and other professionals, and an even larger network of devoted readers and supporters who join with them to carry out PEN America's mission.
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Tomorrow (October 30th), Vietnam will hold a closed-door trial for blogger Duong Van Thai, who exposed government corruption. Thai faces charges under Art. 117 of Vietnam's Penal Code, a provision often used to stifle dissent. PEN America calls on the Vietnamese government to drop all charges against blogger Duong Van Thai and immediately release him. Thai’s work exposing corruption is not a crime—it’s a critical exercise of free expression, essential to accountable governance. By holding a closed-door trial and barring his family, Vietnam denies Thai basic rights to a fair and transparent legal process. PEN America is also concerned that Thai was abducted and forcibly returned to Vietnam. He disappeared in Thailand in April 2023 only to reappear in police custody in Vietnam. This echoes past forced returns of activists and raises serious concerns on transnational repression. https://lnkd.in/ekNdmwWY
Blogger Đường Văn Thái sẽ bị xử kín vì liên quan đến nhiều quan chức nhà nước
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Reagan Was Right, and Rufo Is Wrong. The attack on DEI flies in the face of traditional conservative principles, writes Suzanne Nossel in Inside Higher Ed. https://lnkd.in/epff7kyx
DEI bans are dangerous governmental overreach (opinion)
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The suspension of operations of a New York theater, after a decision by the owner, the Catholic Archdiocese of New York, to increase scrutiny of scripts & cancel plays it found objectionable, robs theater goers of a longtime innovative venue for new plays. https://lnkd.in/eqkt-hA6
Cancellation of Plays at New York Theater by Catholic Archdiocese Undermines Artistic Freedom - PEN America
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In a new Facts Forward interview, Dannagal Young, a professor and director of the Center for Political Communication at the University of Delaware, discusses how psychology shapes politics. “The most efficient way to activate a social identity is always to threaten it,” she said. Read: https://lnkd.in/en6_27S2
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“The spectacle of two major newspapers pulling back planned endorsements of a presidential candidate on the eve of a consequential election sends a chilling message." Read our full statement: https://lnkd.in/eNP-BEzQ
Statement on Los Angeles Times and Washington Post Pulling Presidential Endorsements - PEN America
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In this week's #PENTen, Sacha Lamb, author of “The Forbidden Book,” outlines their writing process and how Yiddish literature inspired this latest novel in an interview with Julia Goldberg. Don't miss it! https://lnkd.in/ezd89nYw
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PEN America Statement: The Cancellation of Naval Academy Lecture by Ruth Ben-Ghiat at Behest of Republican Politicians Threatens Institutional Autonomy https://lnkd.in/eh-7ueus
Cancellation of Naval Academy Lecture by Ruth Ben-Ghiat at Behest of Republican Politicians Threatens Institutional Autonomy - PEN America
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Ahead of Georgia’s crucial elections, we spoke to Georgian writers to hear their thoughts on signs of democratic backsliding in the country. Read Khatuna Tskhadadze & Ekaterina Togonidze on “foreign agents,” silencing of LGBTQ voices, and more: https://lnkd.in/eZu5p_-2
In Conversation with Two Prominent Georgian Authors: How Cultural Suppression by Georgian Dream Has Pushed the Country to the Brink of Authoritarianism - PEN America
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Wikipedia has been a free, reliable, go-to source for information about almost anything for over 20 years. Run entirely by volunteers and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, the online repository is one of the most vulnerable corners of the internet in this age of mis- and disinformation. However, with a plethora of tools, from human eyes to bots and extensions, and even AI, it is effectively countering the spread of false information. Talking to PEN America’s Mina Haq, Maggie Dennis, vice president of community resilience and sustainability at the Wikimedia Foundation, discussed how Wikipedia volunteers moderate content for accuracy. Read the full interview at: https://lnkd.in/en8JnT_U
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