Visitors: 196 May 4, 2011 (Geneva) – United Nations member states should denounce Singapore’s severe restrictions on freedom of expression, association, and assembly during the country’s first-ever Universal Periodic Review (UPR), Human Rights Watch said today. The review, at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, is scheduled for May 6, 2011. With Singapore’s national […]
Visitors: 208 May 4, 2011 (Geneva) – United Nations member states should denounce Singapore’s severe restrictions on freedom of expression, association, and assembly during the country’s first-ever Universal Periodic Review (UPR), Human Rights Watch said today. The review, at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, is scheduled for May 6, 2011. With Singapore’s national […]
Visitors: 190 World Press Freedom DayStrasbourg/London, 02.05.2011 – The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, and the President of PEN International, John Ralston Saul, today made the following joint statement to mark World Press Freedom Day on 3 May. They added that they are making this joint statement to express their concern […]
Visitors: 199 World Press Freedom DayStrasbourg/London, 02.05.2011 – The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, and the President of PEN International, John Ralston Saul, today made the following joint statement to mark World Press Freedom Day on 3 May. They added that they are making this joint statement to express their concern […]
Visitors: 189 World Press Freedom DayStrasbourg/London, 02.05.2011 – The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, and the President of PEN International, John Ralston Saul, today made the following joint statement to mark World Press Freedom Day on 3 May. They added that they are making this joint statement to express their concern […]
Visitors: 208 27 April 2011 PEN International strongly supports the repeal of Ireland’s Defamation Act of 2009 and an amendment to the Irish Constitution’s requirement that blasphemy be prohibited under Irish law. PEN is an organization whose members pledge to promote good understanding and mutual respect between nations and to do their utmost to dispel […]
Visitors: 183 27 April 2011 PEN International strongly supports the repeal of Ireland’s Defamation Act of 2009 and an amendment to the Irish Constitution’s requirement that blasphemy be prohibited under Irish law. PEN is an organization whose members pledge to promote good understanding and mutual respect between nations and to do their utmost to dispel […]
Visitors: 217 27 April 2011 PEN International strongly supports the repeal of Ireland’s Defamation Act of 2009 and an amendment to the Irish Constitution’s requirement that blasphemy be prohibited under Irish law. PEN is an organization whose members pledge to promote good understanding and mutual respect between nations and to do their utmost to dispel […]
Visitors: 188 Pakistan The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) condemned the slandering campaign launched by Khushnood Ali khan, against the Implementation Tribunal for Newspaper Employees (ITNE) and termed it highly objectionable, unethical, and threatening and a calculated malicious campaign to escape from the lawful and social obligations. Taking strong exception to recent articles contributed […]
Visitors: 167 Pakistan The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) condemned the slandering campaign launched by Khushnood Ali khan, against the Implementation Tribunal for Newspaper Employees (ITNE) and termed it highly objectionable, unethical, and threatening and a calculated malicious campaign to escape from the lawful and social obligations. Taking strong exception to recent articles contributed […]
Visitors: 162 Pakistan The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) condemned the slandering campaign launched by Khushnood Ali khan, against the Implementation Tribunal for Newspaper Employees (ITNE) and termed it highly objectionable, unethical, and threatening and a calculated malicious campaign to escape from the lawful and social obligations. Taking strong exception to recent articles contributed […]
Visitors: 198 21 April 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International protests the three-year sentence handed down to Internet writer Michael Nabil Sanad, on 9 April 2011. Sanad was convicted for criticising former president Hosni Mubarak. PEN International considers Sanad’s detention to be in violation of Article 19 of the International Convention on […]
Visitors: 204 21 April 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International protests the three-year sentence handed down to Internet writer Michael Nabil Sanad, on 9 April 2011. Sanad was convicted for criticising former president Hosni Mubarak. PEN International considers Sanad’s detention to be in violation of Article 19 of the International Convention on […]
Visitors: 216 21 April 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International protests the three-year sentence handed down to Internet writer Michael Nabil Sanad, on 9 April 2011. Sanad was convicted for criticising former president Hosni Mubarak. PEN International considers Sanad’s detention to be in violation of Article 19 of the International Convention on […]
Visitors: 213 April 20, 2011 (Geneva) – Dozens of Ivorian refugee women and girls recently arrived in eastern Liberia say they have had to engage in sex to get adequate food, shelter, or money, Human Rights Watch said today. The Liberian government, the police, and United Nations agencies should take urgent measures to protect and […]
Visitors: 152 April 20, 2011 (Geneva) – Dozens of Ivorian refugee women and girls recently arrived in eastern Liberia say they have had to engage in sex to get adequate food, shelter, or money, Human Rights Watch said today. The Liberian government, the police, and United Nations agencies should take urgent measures to protect and […]
Visitors: 171 April 20, 2011 (Geneva) – Dozens of Ivorian refugee women and girls recently arrived in eastern Liberia say they have had to engage in sex to get adequate food, shelter, or money, Human Rights Watch said today. The Liberian government, the police, and United Nations agencies should take urgent measures to protect and […]
Visitors: 198 20 April 2011PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee strongly protests the harsh seven year prison sentence handed to dissident writer and activist Cu Huy Ha Vu on 4 April 2011.. PEN is calling for his immediate and unconditional release in accordance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) to which […]
Visitors: 199 20 April 2011PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee strongly protests the harsh seven year prison sentence handed to dissident writer and activist Cu Huy Ha Vu on 4 April 2011.. PEN is calling for his immediate and unconditional release in accordance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) to which […]
Visitors: 186 20 April 2011PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee strongly protests the harsh seven year prison sentence handed to dissident writer and activist Cu Huy Ha Vu on 4 April 2011.. PEN is calling for his immediate and unconditional release in accordance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) to which […]
Visitors: 195 14 April 2011 PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee welcomes the 6 April 2011 release on bail of reporter Armando José Chicoca, who was sentenced to one year in prison and a heavy fine on defamation charges on 3 March. Chicoca was freed on bail of $2,400 following an order by the Angolan […]
Visitors: 226 14 April 2011 PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee welcomes the 6 April 2011 release on bail of reporter Armando José Chicoca, who was sentenced to one year in prison and a heavy fine on defamation charges on 3 March. Chicoca was freed on bail of $2,400 following an order by the Angolan […]
Visitors: 227 14 April 2011 PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee welcomes the 6 April 2011 release on bail of reporter Armando José Chicoca, who was sentenced to one year in prison and a heavy fine on defamation charges on 3 March. Chicoca was freed on bail of $2,400 following an order by the Angolan […]
Visitors: 168 April 12, 2011 (New York) – The report by a panel of experts to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on April 12, 2011, about laws-of-war violations in Sri Lanka should be used to pave the way for justice, Human Rights Watch said today. Ban commissioned the report in May 2010 after the Sri […]
Visitors: 176 April 12, 2011 (New York) – The report by a panel of experts to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on April 12, 2011, about laws-of-war violations in Sri Lanka should be used to pave the way for justice, Human Rights Watch said today. Ban commissioned the report in May 2010 after the Sri […]