Uyghur PEN Board Members
Archive for May, 2020
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AZIZ ISA ELKUN President of Uyghur PEN CentreEmail: aziz.isaa@gmail.com Aziz Isa Elkun, a London-based Uyghur poet, writer, and academic, currently serves as President of the Uyghur PEN Centre. On April 16, 2025, the Centre held its general election at the Mir Publishing House in Almaty, Kazakhstan, with 24 members in attendance. During the election, Aziz Isa Elkun was unanimously elected as President, reflecting strong support for his leadership and his ongoing efforts to promote Uyghur literature, language, and freedom of expression.
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Milliy Musteqilliq Biz Uyghurlardin Yene Qanchilik Uzaqta?
Asiye Uyghur 1. Musteqilliqning shertliri we ré’alliqimizdiki mewjut mesililer Milliy musteqilliq bolsa her bir döletning allah ata qilghan hoquqi bolup , mustemlikichi döletlerning küchliri zor derijide ajizlighan 21-esirdimu yenila nurghun milletler öz dölitining musteqilliqi üchün tinimsiz köresh qiliwatidu. Elwette xelq’ara weziyet intayin murekkep we milliy musteqilliq heriketliri yenila nurghun döletlerning soda menpe’etige yandash bolsimu, emma bundaq ehwalning kélip chiqishimu kontrol qilish mumkin bolmaydighan ishlardur. Chünki dunya jama’iti bilen birge yashawatqan héchbir millet jama’et ichidiki ishlardin mustesna birer ishlarni wujutqa chiqiralmaydu. Undaqta biz yiraqni qoyup yéqinqi yeni ikki minginji yillardin kéyin musteqil bolghan döletlerge qarap baqayli: 1. Sherqiy timor démukratik jumhuriyiti, 16-esirdin bashlap portigaliye teripidin mustemlike qilin’ghan, kéyin gollandiye bilen birlikte mustemlike qilin’ghan dölet bolup, ikkinji dunya urushidin kéyin sherqiy timor portogaliyining bir ölkisi bolup qalghan. 1975-yili musteqilliq herikitini qozghighan we uzun yillar izchil köresh qilish dawamida 2002-yili musteqilliq élan qilghan we bashqa döletlerning birdek étirap qilishigha érishken. 2. Qara tagh jumhuriyiti. 19-esirdila musteqil dölet bolghan we étirap qilin’ghan bolsimu, lékin balqan ariligha jaylashqan bu dölet jughrapiyilik orni seweblik nurghun döletlerni “Bir Qismi”gha aylinip qalghan. 2-dunya urushidin kéyin yügüslawiye jumhuriyitining ittipaqdash dölitige aylinip qalghan. 90-yillardiki sowét ittipaqining parchilinishi bilen yuguslawiye ittipaqidiki nurghun döletler musteqilliq élan qilghan. Qara tagh bolsa 2006- 5-ayning 21-küni omum xelq awazgha qoyush arqiliq 5présenlik kichikkine üstünlük bilen musteqil bolghan we 6-ayning 3-küni 1-dunya urushidiki musteqil dölitini eslige keltürgen. Shu yili 6-ayning 28-küni b d t gha resmiy eza bolghan we dunya teripidin resmiy étirapqa érishken. 3. Jenubiy sudan jumhuriyiti. Afriqining sherqiy qismigha jaylashqan bu dölet sudan jumhuriyitidin ayrilip chiqqan bolup, 2011-yili 9-iyulda musteqilliq élan qilghan we afriqa chong quruqluqidiki 54-dölet bolghan shundaqla pütün dunyaning étirap qilishigha érishken. Bu dölet nöwette dunyadiki eng yash dölet hésablinidu. Yuqarqi üch döletning musteqil bolalishi bizge shuni ispatlap turuptiki, uyghur xelqi üchün musteqilliq peqet bir chüshla emes, belki tarixiy pursetlerge tolghan hazirqi […]
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The PEN Charter
PEN affirms that: Literature knows no frontiers and must remain common currency among people in spite of political or international upheavals. In all circumstances, and particularly in time of war, works of art, the patrimony of humanity at large, should be left untouched by national or political passion. Members of PEN should at all times use what influence they have in favour of good understanding and mutual respect between nations and people; they pledge themselves to do their utmost to dispel all hatreds and to champion the ideal of one humanity living in peace and equality in one world. PEN stands for the principle of unhampered transmission of thought within each nation and between all nations, and members pledge themselves to oppose any form of suppression of freedom of expression in the country and community to which they belong, as well as throughout the world wherever this is possible. PEN declares for a free press and opposes arbitrary censorship in time of peace. It believes that the necessary advance of the world towards a more highly organised political and economic order renders a free criticism of governments, administrations and institutions imperative. And since freedom implies voluntary restraint, members pledge themselves to oppose such evils of a free press as mendacious publication, deliberate falsehood and distortion of facts for political and personal ends. Where did our Charter come from?The Charter of PEN International has guided, unified and inspired its members for over 60 years. Its principles were implicit at the organisation’s founding in 1921. However, like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the PEN Charter was forged amidst the harsh realities of World War Two. It was approved at the 1948 PEN Congress in Copenhagen. Galsworthy’s inspirationPEN’s first president, the British novelist and playwright John Galsworthy, wrote the first three articles […]
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Women Writers
The Women Writers’ Committee was set up in 1991 to promote certain issues faced by women writers around the world – challenges at family and national levels such as unequal education, unequal access to resources and actual prohibition from writing. The committee reaches out to both aspiring and practising women writers through PEN Centres and other organisations and networks, and works with the Writers in Prison Committee on behalf of incarcerated or endangered women writers. Representatives from the committee attend meetings of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. The committee has held conferences in countries such as Nepal, Kyrgyzstan and Senegal, and has published special newsletters. It uses Facebook to connect the work of women writers to the world. For more information or to get involved with the Women Writers Committee please contact: Zoe Rodriguez, Chair of the WWC – zoerodriguezconsulting@gmail.com For a history of the Women Writers Committee click here: Women Writers Committee _________________________________________ Free Chimengul Awut: https://cpj.org/data/people/chimengul-awut/index.php http://www.azizisa.org/en/tag/chimengul-awut/ PEN International
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Writers in Prison
The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International works on behalf of persecuted writers worldwide. It was established in 1960 in response to increasing attempts to silence voices of dissent by imprisoning writers and journalists. Working on behalf of persecuted writers worldwide, the WiPC monitors between 700-900 cases across the globe each year. The WiPC mobilises the wider PEN community to take action through its Rapid Action Network alerts, targeted regional campaigns, and by utilising PEN’s consultative status with the UN to submit UPR country reports. The Committee’s Rapid Action Network Alerts provide details of cases of individuals whose lives and liberty are being threatened and makes specific suggestions for action. In addition to its work on behalf of individual writers, the Committee creates campaigns on issues affecting freedom of expression, such as Religious Defamation, Impunity and Criminal Defamation, and campaigns focused on specific regions or countries, such as the Americas, Iran, China and Turkey. The Writers in Prison Committee also works through the UN to bring attention to individual cases and to systemic human rights problems in specific countries. Salil Tripathi is the Chair of the Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International, elected at the 81st PEN International Congress in Quebec City, Canada. From 2009-2013 he was co-chair of the Writers at Risk Committee at English PEN. Salil is an award-winning journalist and writer. He was born in India and has been a foreign correspondent in Singapore and Hong Kong and now lives in London. He is contributing editor at Mint and Caravan in India. His articles have also appeared in major international newspapers and magazines, including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, New Statesman, Guardian, Independent, Far Eastern Economic Review, and many others. His awards include the Citibank Pan Asia Economic Journalism Award in 1994, […]
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Writers for Peace
The Writers for Peace Committee was created in 1984, an era during which writers found it especially difficult to collaborate across the East–West divide of the Cold War. The committee’s founding members recognised the need to bring writers together to exchange ideas, especially when most other doors were closed. It became a haven throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s (during the Balkan wars and other political conflicts) for writers who wished to tell their stories with the knowledge that their voices would be heard. Every spring the committee meets in Bled, Slovenia, for its annual conference. PEN writers from around the world come together there to discuss issues of conflict, peace and freedom of expression, and to create a space for dialogue between writers from all parts of the world – especially from regions in conflict. The 2018 meeting is the 50th in Bled (though the commmitee was only formally formed 34 years ago) and the initial reasons for establishing it remain all too relevant. The current President of the Writers For Peace Committee is Emmanuel Pierrat and is based at the French PEN Centre. You can contact him at emmanuel.pierrat@pierratavocats.com. The Vice-Presidents are Simon Mundy, Frank Miksa, Veera Tyhtila and Tienchi Liao-Martin.PEN International
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