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Welcome page 1 Welcome Who we are - History page 2

What we stand for - (The Charter) page 3 2019 has been a year of growth for PEN International: in strength, in campaigning, in vision, in networking capacity. The United Nations Where we operate page 4 proclaimed 2019 the International Year of Indigenous Languages and PEN Our income page 6 celebrated with two major events. A meeting in Chiapas on translation and linguistic rights with the goal to promote all literatures without Our expenditure page 7 exception by Writing the Future in Indigenous Languages. The second was the PEN International Congress in Manila, under the banner Speaking in Our budgeted income for 2020 page 8 Tongues: Literary Freedom and Indigenous Languages, where the diversity of Filipino languages were experienced by all PEN delegates in the Our budgeted expenditure for 2020 page 9 presence of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues, Grants per region page 10 Fernand de Varennes. We evaluated the work for the whole period 2015–2019, which acknowledged Budgeted grants per region page 10 that our international community is stronger than ever, thanks to multiplying our presence through the Civil Society Programmes and Highlights per region page 11 regional network meetings in Africa, Asia and Latin America. 2020 Civil society projects update page 11 The protection of writers at risk in the face of an increasing number of authoritarian regimes and from the cruelty of non-state actors remains Key achievements 2019 page 12 a critical area of our work. This was reaffirmed in May 2019 through the joint conference in At Home Everywhere held in Rotterdam with PEN’s Theory of change page 14 Writers in Prison Committee and the International Cities of Refuge Why work for PEN page 16 Network. On 5 October 1921, when writer Catherine Amy Dawson Scott gathered In 2020 we shall... page 17 a small crowd of writers in the Florence restaurant in Soho to launch PEN, who could have imagined that it would grow into a network of Some words of hope and thanks page 18 more than 143 centres worldwide? Today PEN is present in more than one hundred countries across all continents, including representing Tibetan, Uyghur, North Korean, Vietnamese, Iranian, Cuban and Eritrean literatures in exile. As PEN prepares for its 100th birthday in 2021 with the deep conviction that our tradition of networking, debating and joint campaigning to protect and promote free expression remains as vital today as it was one hundred years ago. As a global network of writers, we are strengthened in our mission promoting literature and freedom of expression in all Use the camera on your corners of a world where too often writers face judicial harassment , smartphone to scan the hate speech, attacks on women’s and minority voices and the daily QR code and learn more about PEN International. violations of linguistic rights.

PEN International in numbers 2019 1 Who we are - History ...and what we stand for - (The Charter)

Over nine decades we In 1940, English PEN There is a cast-iron • Literature, knows no frontiers and must remain have become a genuinely published its ‘Appeal sculpture entitled common currency among people in spite of political international organisation, to the Conscience Witness by Antony or international upheavals. encompassing a wide of the World’ letter, Gormley, marking array of cultures and a passionate plea for our 90th anniversary, • In all circumstances, and particularly in time of languages, and today the the protection of standing outside war, works of art, the patrimony of humanity at large, overwhelming majority freedom of expression the British Library should be left untouched by national or political passion. of PEN International’s written by English in London 143 Centres come from PEN’s first woman outside Europe. Women’s president, Storm • Members of PEN should at all times use what rights are promoted by Jameson and influence they have in favour of good understanding centers participation co-signed by English and mutual respect between nations and people; they pledge themselves to do their utmost to dispel to PEN Women Writers writers including Vita PEN International Committee and PEN all hatreds and to champion the ideal of one Sackville-West, E.M. humanity living in peace and equality in one world. was started in 1921 has promoted peace in Forster, H.G. Wells, (then known simply countries like Bosnia, Mali, Vera Brittain, and as PEN) by Catherine Afghanistan or Sierra Rebecca West We were the first • PEN stands for the principle of unhampered Amy Dawson Scott as Leone through is Writers worldwide association transmission of thought within each nation and a way to unite writers for Peace Committee. between all nations, and members pledge themselves of writers, and the after the devastation to oppose any form of suppression of freedom of first organisation to point of World War I expression in the country and community to which out that freedom of they belong, as well as throughout the world wherever expression and literature this is possible. PEN declares for a free press and Our name was conceived as an acronym: ‘Poets, are inseparable opposes arbitrary censorship in time of peace. It Essayists, Novelists’ (later broadened to ‘Poets, believes that the necessary advance of the world Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, Novelists’) The first meeting towards a more highly organised political and economic order renders a free criticism of governments, of the PEN Club was administrations and institutions imperative. And held at the Florence since freedom implies voluntary restraint, members Joining with partners Restaurant in Soho pledge themselves to oppose such evils of a free press across the UK in the on 5 October 1921 as mendacious publication, deliberate falsehood and early 2000s, we distortion of facts for political and personal ends. successfully campaigned for the protection of artistic • The Board: The current governing board of PEN freedoms in response International is made up of our Executive Board Members of PEN in our first years included to the Racial and consisting of International President, Jennifer Clement, Thomas Mann, Rabindranath Tagore, Religious Hatred Act International Secretary, Kätlin Kaldmaa, International Victoria Ocampo and Tōson Shimazaki Treasurer, Eric Lax, and seven other Board members. 2006

2 PEN International in numbers 2019 PEN International in numbers 2019 3 Where we operate

143 centres around the world, networked from London

North America South America Europe Africa Asia Australia

4 PEN International in numbers 2019 PEN International in numbers 2019 5 Our income Our expenditure January 2019 to December 2019 January 2019 to December 2019

How our income was generated 2019 How we used our income Centres engagement £474,000 SIDA grants £827,000 Support / administration £559,000 Other grants £230,000

Advocacy & research £68,000 Other income £1,407,000 and interest Other congress £1,653,000 £58,000 £71,000 Centenary expenses Circles funded from reserves £116,000 £67,000 Dissident blog /PEN/OPP Members due £50,000 £176,000 Civil society projects grant Our detailed, audited annual reports can be found at pen-international.org/who-we-are/governance/audited-accounts £163,000

Funders/Donors/Partners Board & governance It is with a resounding thank you that we celebrate the incredible support of our generous £61,000 donors, partners, and supporters. The continuous support of our funders has ensured our global influence and safeguarded our vital work with writers against increasing threats. Writers in prison Our donors make a significant impact on our work. We are immensely grateful for any £140,000 help we receive and rely on kind donations to deliver our civil society programmes and vital protection work. As always, PEN International’s commitment to the promotion of literature and fight for freedom of expression would not be possible without the valued support of our donors across the world.

6 PEN International in numbers 2019 PEN International in numbers 2019 7 Our budgeted income for 2020 Our budgeted expenditure for 2020 January 2020 to December 2020 January 2020 to December 2020

STAFFING AND GOVERNANCE SIDA Staffing and recruitment £739,000 £1,027,000 Fundraising major donors IT and administration £107,000 £177,000 Fundraising new trusts Board capacity building £250,000 £10,000 £1,352,000 Staff strategy training Fundraising one-off £19,000 £70,000 Board meetings and congress Screen £15,000 £24,000 Audit and consultants Publishers £54,000

£190,000 CORE ACTIVITIES Civil Society projects Writers £30,000 £155,000 £1,756,000 Congress Member dues £60,000 £158,000 NMFA Project Evan Cornish £2,000 £10,000 Community - Network meetings £53,000 Fritt Ord £403,000 £26,000 Other costs NMFA £28,000 £43,000 Dissident Blog ICORN £60,000 £88,000 ICORN £22,000 Other funders £21,000 Fundraising cost and volunteers & interns £23,000 8 8 PENPEN International International in innumbers numbers 2019 2019 PEN International in numbers 2019 9 Grants per region 2019 Highlights per region 2019

AFRICA AMERICAS AND THE CARIBBEAN • PEN Eritrea in Exile, PEN Uganda and PEN • PEN Argentina ran a project aimed at Togo increased their capacity to reach and indigenous language promotion in schools. attract diverse audiences leading to greater Another project focused on sharing literature Europe participation in activities and events. across communities. • PEN Uganda runs creative workshops for • PEN Haiti created a website for the PEN £9,199 prisoners in some of the highest security Centre, helping attract new, young male and female prisons in the country. membership. • PEN Eritrea in Exile is running a project • PEN Centres mark Day of the Dead with a called ‘breaking the silence’ focused on range of activities, remembering journalists Asia supporting exiled Eritrean writers to tell who have been killed their stories. GLOBAL ASIA £44,645 • In December 2019, to mark Human Rights Americas • Afghan PEN has been supporting and Day, fifteen PEN Centres from the Global Africa promoting girls and women literature South wrote a series of articles on the and more than 100 people participated freedom of expression situation in their £39,748 in one of their events, 45 percent of which respective countries. Several held public £69,450 were girls and women. panel events to explore these issues and mark the day. EUROPE • PEN International takes part in a joint • Consultation and planning results in PEN advocacy mission to Turkey in September. International’s strategy 2020 to 2023, an The report is launched during a public evolutionary development that will bring discussion in Brussels where mission PEN through its centenary year. members present their findings to EU leaders and policy makers on how the EU can best engage to support the plight of Turkey’s journalists • The Dissident Blog is rebranded as PEN/Opp Budgeted grant per region 2020 at Congress in Manila, Philippines AFRICA EUROPE Afrikaans 5,000 Bosnia 5,000 Eritrea 5,000 Ilkyaz Website 10,000 2020 Civil society projects update Nigeria 5,000 Creative witnesses 5,000 Sierra Leone 5,000 Total 20,000 Due to the unprecedented and devastating impact of the Coronavirus Covid 19, South Africa 5,000 with the world in lockdown or living with social distancing, many PEN projects AMERICAS Zimbabwe 5,000 and events have been seriously disrupted. As in-person literary events, meetings Argentina 5,000 Make space Uganda 15,000 Chile 5,000 and trainings were not possible in 2020, PEN International took the opportunity Internet access for webinars 4,000 Guatemala 5,000 to reallocate its resources under the Civil Society Programme to invest in the Total 49,000 Haiti 5,000 communications and online presence of its Centres notably in Africa, Asia and ASIA Honduras 5,000 the Americas. Modest grants have been provided to 24 PEN Centres who have Afghanistan 5,000 Nicaragua 5,000 developed online activities which seek to engage new audiences. Bangladesh 5,000 Paraguay 5,000 The grants are intended to support PEN Centres to grow their digital presence Cambodia 5,000 Puerto Rico 5,000 Malaysia 5,000 San Miguel d’Allende 5,000 and voice, through a range of activities webinars, lectures, literary readings, online Myanmar 5,000 Uruguay 3,000 tutorials, interviews and podcasts using Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, SoundCloud, Day of the dead 7,700 mobile apps, Centre websites and other platforms. We are delighted that so many Total 25,000 Total 55,700 Centres shared their ideas on how they are combining literary events with PEN’s MENA freedom of expression concerns and highlighting PEN’s global themes, for example Iraq 5,000 using our PEN manifestos (e.g. Women’s Manifesto, Girona Manifesto) to stimulate Total 5,000 debate and reach wider audiences. 10 PEN International in numbers 2019 PEN International in numbers 2019 11

Key achievements 2019

PEN’s research and Assessment of over advocacy successfully 32 supported 14 7,0 5 5 PEN Emergency Fund writers released from 116 young people, writers, grants were given to applications to the prison in part as a result journalists, academics, writers facing immediate International Cities of of PEN’s campaigning. teachers, parents, risk, supporting 10 writers 5 Refuge Network (ICORN) asylum applications community members with medical treatment, from writers threatened led to successful residency 26 and human rights PEN Centres took action five with accommodation with deportation or stranded placements for 22 writers activists have been on the Day of the and living costs and a in refugee camps engaged in spaces Imprisoned Writer, further 17 with relocation, The lives of 42 indigenous language created by PEN Centres 15 November 2019 travel and subsistence. writers (Innu, Tzeltal, Tzosil, around the world. Maya, Zoque, Ch’ol, Mam, Since the launch of the 96 Mè’phàà, Náhuatl, Quechua, new website in October writers at risk have Mapudungun, Aymara, Bikol) 2019, PEN/Opp (previously markedly improved joined 17 PEN Centres in named the Dissident 79% through a range of Chiapas, Mexico, for the 14 Blog) has increased the of writers who saw initiatives including Translation and Linguistic PEN Centre projects number of readers by positive changes in their solidarity actions and Rights Committee Meeting, have opened spaces for situation said that the campaigning, legal creating new platforms young people to express solidarity provided was interventions and to amplify the voices of themselves creatively important to them. humanitarian assistance indigenous literatures. and critically 20%

• 14 writers released from • A PEN delegation presents the • Ukrainian writer and • Liu Xia, the Chinese poet, prison, with a further eight report Russia’s strident stifling filmmaker Oleg Sentsov writer and PEN member, is being acquitted or having of free speech 2012-2018 to is released from prison finally allowed to board a charges dropped, following Russia’s Presidential Council for after spending five years plane to Germany, following PEN campaigns Civil Society and Human Rights, behind bars an eight-year-long unofficial which pledges to cooperate house arrest • Kurdish journalist, painter • Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrhatu with the organisation and poet, Zehra Doğan, is receives the inaugural PEN • İlkyaz – a platform for young released after spending • New PEN Centres in Guinea Eritrea Freedom of Expression writers in Turkey – launch- more than 500 days behind Bissau, Iraq, Moscow, Perth, Award at the International es with the support of PEN bars and warmly thanks PEN and Cape Verde are set up PEN/ICORN network International, PEN Turkey and for its solidarity campaign meeting Norwegian PEN IMPACT IMPACT

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Theory of change Activities Supporting Centre-led Assessing applications Advocacy Developing and AMI projects for residency placements delivering strategies INSTRE NG GEN Coordinating outreach MA DER and one-off grants for : Supporting Free the events Delivering trainings L W IR O writers at risk G R Word! events D K N IN Holding workshops Coordinating regional A G Providing asylum support N T Coordinating regional and international E Changes in O Supporting public M C campaigns Leading and supporting network meetings O institutional H A panel events W F capacity and N international campaigns G Establishing Supporting PEN Centres O sustainability of PEN Changes in Developing toolkits S E

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Support civil society to Defend freedom Enhance freedom of Build the capacity Areas of influence: what we’ll change be creative and critical, of expression and expression across the of PEN Centres, Improve the situation of Create spaces for so that it can influence promote literature by Secretariat and Board Challenge structural globe by influencing writers at risk, who are literature, language, policy and practice improving the situation to deliver the strategic threats to freedom law, policy and practice imprisoned or otherwise debate, dialogue, of writers at risk plan 2020 to 2023 of expression persecuted ideas and opinions Increased inclusive The situation of writers Duty bearers are Increased capacity of spaces exist for at risk is improved by receptive to PEN’s the board to provide Our highest priorities: where we’ll work literature and language PEN’s direct assistance, demands for leadership & insight to Promoting Freedom to flourish solidarity, advocacy improvements to FOE PEN International (PI) Promoting Translation of Expression for women Countering hate speech and campaigning policy and practice and Linguistic Rights Increased platforms Increased capacity and minority groups exist for marginalised Displaced writers Counter-act negative of the committees to language writers are given a platform impacts and promote provide direction and and connected with freedom of expression expertise to PI and Increased access to How we’ll change as an organisation professional networks, in PEN’s thematic membership literature exists for allowing them to areas (hate speech, Strengthen the young, diverse and Increased capacity of Strengthen continue with their linguistic rights and institutional marginalised writers Secretariat staff to Diversify our and refine our Enhance our work gender equality) by capacity and deliver and develop funding civil society communications contributing to ongoing sustainability The voices of displaced strategic plan 2020-23 programme societal debates of PEN writers are heard Centres have increased in global migration Writers have resources capacity to be strong debates and networks required Our values civil society actors and to support them in advocates for freedom Solidarity • Expanding understanding • Fostering empathy • Cultural diversity tackling PEN’s thematic of expression areas Creativity • Accountability • Transparency • Collaboration

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We asked our colleagues why they chose ... prepare 100 assessments for writers persecuted for their work and seeking to work for PEN International. Here’s some to relocate for short term residencies with the International Cities of Refugee of the things that they said...... provide up to 50 emergency grants for writers at risk and actively campaign for those imprisoned or facing judicial harassment I believe in PEN’s mission and it makes me feel professionally ... continue to advocate for the protection and strengthening of free expression policy and practice across the world My interest has always been in the fulfilled human rights field, particularly ... publish our unique Case List which records over 250 cases of writers who are persecuted and imprisoned for their writing humanitarian relief and PEN has given me the chance to focus on ... support up to 25 PEN Centres across the Global South with bespoke expertise that work I love what I do and helping people and small grants to support digital inclusion and to promote their on line presence ... provide skills training to our members through a series of 10 interactive webinars ... complete PEN’s historic centenary digital archive which will launch PEN’s centenary year PEN is the only organisation The organisation has ... hold online literary events and interactive free expression panels that brings together literature incredible potential at our four online Committee meetings and human rights and does lots of good work with hard- ... hold our first digital Congress and welcome four new Centres to the PEN family working staff and I’m glad to be a part of it Because I believe it ...as well as increasing our is a truly unique organisation, that fundraising efforts does amazing work I’ve been asked to serve the organisation and I feel that PEN International relies on voluntary donations and grants to be able to deliver its my contribution helps wide-ranging activities across five continents, as well as the crucial membership fees from Centres and our work with strategic partners. Our far-reaching and ambitious Civil Society Programme is supported by a grant from the Swedish International Development Agency, but one of the conditions is that we find matched funding from elsewhere. In 2020 a new strategy has been developed in order to protect our work into the future and to Our biggest motivators for working at PEN... address the risk of relying on a small number of funding sources. We hope that our Centenary in 2021 will provide the impetus and opportunities to diversify our funding streams, and to raise much more awareness and support of the work of PEN internationally. Intrinsic desire to do a good job 28% We have achieved much in our 100 year history, but there are many challenges ahead, Having a real impact 23% many global threats to freedom of expression, and many writers who are persecuted, imprisoned or silenced, who need the solidarity of the PEN movement. We can only help, only Feeling encouraged and recognised 17% raise awareness, only campaign, only fight for change, if we have financial stability. Believe in the organisation 17% To that end, we will be fundraising for the essential but largely ‘behind the scenes’ work of the Protection and Research teams. We will be fundraising in order to continue Camaraderie, peer motivation 5% our support of committee activities. We will be fundraising for the crucial but largely hidden work of our finance and admin teams. We will be fundraising to ensure the continuation of our Growing professionally 5% Congress and other events. We will be fundraising to secure the work of our staff across the Other 5% regions to support hundreds of local initiatives. We will be fundraising in order to support our Centres and to make PEN strong.

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I was stronger than I ever was on the outside. I thank you for the attention It was on this very day, on PEN’s Day of the Imprisoned Writer, on the 100th day I ‘‘you paid to each sentence that I wrote was behind bars, when I heard through the deafening shouts of other prisoners also and to your support which allowed my ‘‘trying to hear and be heard, that Arundhati Roy had written to me. That letter made voice to be heard in the outside world. a world of difference to me and to my fellow prisoners. It meant that despite what I thank you immensely for giving me a governments might do to us, despite their hope that we shall just curl up and be Zehra Doğan place in the campaign you are running Kurdish journalist, painter and poet, quiet, despite the many ways through which they try to buy our silence, we continue with‘‘ a thousand efforts and labour. Just to speak, through words, photographs, cartoons and poems. I was strengthened, as as yesterday, your support and solidarity I hope you will be, by the knowledge that there are countless others out there who continues to be respite for me. I am continue to stand by our side. Come what may. grateful! Don’t go missing, please. Your efforts are invaluable in being the voice Shahidul Alam of the voiceless... On this iron bunk bed, Bangladeshi photographer and writer your solidarity will continue to be beside me, I believe this wholeheartedly.

Nedim Türfent I thank PEN for the sustained solidarity with Turkish journalist and poet, me. Although I am detained by a repressive Van High Security Prison, Turkey ‘‘dictatorship, I am not isolated. Although I am punished for my writing, I am not ashamed of I was released from jail on 29 July 2019, and since that day my crime. Your support and good will have I am looking for a way to communicate with you. Thank consoled and enthused me during this difficult you‘‘ very much for the efforts you have made for my season of my life. Your advocacy and publicity freedom, and for the wonderful and tremendous work you ensured that my story firmly remained in the are doing every day to establish the principles of freedom limelight and on the agenda, even when my of opinion and expression. For the five years and seven country instituted a public media blackout months I spent in prison, I held out the hope of freedom, about my imprisonment. I will continue to because I am sure that having such wonderful people as boldly exercise my freedom to write, although you and an organisation like PEN International is a source I am still locked up inside Luzira Women Prison. of hope for me and everyone who aspires to freedom of opinion, thought, expression and writing... With all heart Dr. Stella Nyanzi ... A thousand thanks to PEN International. Ugandan academic, writer and activist Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir Mauritanian blogger PEN is an international organisation with a wide network around the world that has ‘‘done a lot of work in this area. PEN has I’m deeply thankful the PEN/Opp, for the opportunity developed declarations and other documents to publish the feeling-thinking from the Mayan Tsotsil in this field and therefore has increased ‘‘culture, write and declare to readers and listeners of awareness in terms of the rights of different cultures, it is an opportunity and a struggle minorities – particularly linguistic rights – for linguistic, cultural survival and the urgency to that I find helpful in my work as UN Special produce a change in behaviour in intercultural Rapporteur on Minority Issues. relations between peoples and nations in friction. Fernand de Varennes Manuel Bolom Pale United Nations Special Rapporteur Tsotsil writer from Chiapas, Mexico on minority issues 18 PEN International in numbers 2019 PEN International in numbers 2019 19 a

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