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The Perth chapter of PEN International

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PEN Perth is a non-profit organisation fighting for human rights and freedom of speech.

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In case you missed our past event(s):

Conversation with Kolkata poet Srijato and Boorloo’s Robert Wood (audio recording)

MARCH 2023 newsletter

Dear PEN Perth Members and Friends, PEN Perth has been following ‘curious case of Hany Babu’ over the last couple of years. Globally, PEN International has advocated strongly for this former Delhi University Linguist. Some of you were able to join us for the video conference with Dr Babu’s wife Dr Jenny Rowena at our last…

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by penperth March 23, 2023

FEB 2023 – Mother Language Day

International Mother Language Day 2023 Held every year on 21 February, International Mother Language Day is observed to promote linguistic and cultural diversity, and multilingualism. To mark this anniversary, PEN International features the case of Belarusian writer, human rights defender, Nobel Peace Prize winner and PEN Belarus member Ales Bialiatski, detained since 2021 and currently on trial.…

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by penperth February 20, 2023

JAN 2023 newsletter

Dear Members and Fellow Travellers,  It was a pleasure to see some of you at the seminar with Peter Greste, on Human Rights Day 10 December 2022. Peter Greste is an award-winning journalist and author, who, along with his colleagues from Al Jazeera, was imprisoned by Egyptian authorities in 2013-15.  He started his talk by…

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by penperth January 19, 2023

_{PEN Perth acknowledges this land’s traditional custodians, the Whadjuk Noongar people. We pay our respects to the Elders—past, present and future—and recognise their ongoing connection to country.}

_{Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.}

PEN Perth is based at the Centre for Stories in Northbridge, Western Australia.