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Olli Heikkonen: Endangered Uralic languages
No small language and literature is safe under the pressure of big languages. According to UNESCO, most of the existing...
Matteo Stocchetti: Freedom of expression and genocide
How can freedom of expression stop an ongoing genocide? What are ways of exercising this freedom that can stop the...
Minna Castrén: Promoting literature and reading is a fight for freedom of expression
Minna Castrén’s text is only in Finnish and Swedish.
Matteo Stocchetti: Freedom of expression is not enough
To strengthen democracy, we need communicative competences. The idea that freedom of expression is one of the fundamental democratic freedoms...
Laura Lindstedt: The writer’s freedom of expression in a world dominated by spectacle
What comes to mind from the words “writer’s freedom of expression”? Do you think of imprisoned, exiled or murdered writers,...
Janne Huuskonen: The authorities must respect the law
Freedom of expression allows criticism of those in power. Politicians have a broad right to freedom of expression, perhaps even...
Peter Mickwitz: A trip to Ukraine
The last week of October I travelled to Kyiv, Ukraine together with representatives for the Nordic PEN centres, PEN Berlin,...
Pirita Näkkäläjärvi: Hate Speech and Indigenous People Sámi
Freedom of speech of indigenous peoples and hate speech towards indigenous peoples has not been widely studied. Academic literature on...
Nataliya Teramae: The Shell of a Snail
Read the Essay by Nataliya Teramae in Ukrainian. When you emigrate to a foreign country, you automatically start looking for...
Joy Hyvärinen: Does Finland need a commission on freedom of expression?
The freedom of expression commission appointed by the Norwegian government in 2020 has recently published its report (read the report...
Peter Mickwitz: Örnulf Tigerstedt, right-wing radical and president of PEN Finland
Panem et Circenses. Let me toast to your freedom your eight-hour workday, your cultivated soul, your progress and your other...
Judyth Hill: Wage peace
Author and active PEN International member Judyth Hill is visiting Finland’s PEN 5-11.5. In addition to his commitment to freedom...
Nataliya Teramae: How we brought up a dictator
Artists do have the gift of prophesying. For Ulf Stark’s book ‘The Dictator’ Linda Bondestam created a picture of a...
Samay Hamed: For the last American soldier
For the last American soldier: Goodbye General Greet your daughter from the girls of Kabul Tell her about the colorful...
Siarhej Budkin: 35 000 shots in 10 months
Shot 1 The border between two countries. A plot of land in the borderland is well ploughed to see whether...
Ak Welsapar: Love in Lilac
A novella The sun rose higher and in the lilac garden everything was painfully familiar. Arslan had only to close...
Kianoush Ramezani: Freedom after Expression: a new challenge
In 2006, I was invited to give a speech about Muhammad Cartoons and freedom of speech, at the Central European...
Ale Díaz: My Odyssey in the Migration System
My name is Alejandro Díaz Ortiz, I am a Puerto Rican artist, musician, songwriter, graphic designer and a filmmaker who...
Claudia Morales: Erlin Mejía – Walking the refugee’s destiny
Erlin Armando Mejia Andino landed in Sweden three years ago, he is a 25 years old Honduran-born human rights activist...
Joonas Maristo: Sananvapaus ja vastuu – tutkijan paikka vapaana?
Koronakriisi on opettanut meille ainakin kaksi asiaa. Ensinnäkin, maailma voi muuttua ja sitä voidaan muuttaa hyvin nopeasti. Toiseksi, kriisin vaikutukset...