'Since the 83rd PEN Congress in Lviv last October, the author and human rights lawyer Philippe Sands, who was its key-note speaker, has visited Sydney off the back of his phenomenal tracing of the main terms of international law – back to the Nuremberg trials which followed WW11 atrocities. It becomes necessary to ask: what is the state of international behaviour at the present moment that concerns PEN?' (Zoe Rodriguez, President's Report, introduction)
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'Acclaimed cartoonist Cathy Wilcox delivered Sydney PEN’s Free Voices address on the 2017 Day of the Imprisoned Writer.'
'In her Free Voices address on the 2017 Day of The Imprisoned Writer, award-winning cartoonist Cathy Wilcox looked at the ways in which cartoonists suffer and are punished, imprisoned and even killed for speaking out and drawing truths that the powerful – or fanatical - would rather not be seen.' (Introduction)
'The main purpose of the Patrick White Award is to encourage the winner to continue writing, and to provide some financial support to enable that. As Debra Adelaide reports, with his award White supported a basic human right, which is the freedom of expression through the written word.' (Introduction)
'Award-winning novelist Melissa Lucashenko will deliver the next PEN Free Voices address on the Day of the Imprisoned Writer on November 15.' (Introduction)
