International Parliament of Writers
International Network of Cities of Asylum
ICORN – International Cities of Refuge Network
The City
• Involvement• Local governance• Network• Action/Drive• Development
Symbolic - Concrete
• Universal signal • Safe, but not silent • Long term mutual commitment• Win-win situations
The Organisation
• A network of member cities• General Assembly and Executive Board • Cities as actors and ambassadors for human rights
ICORN procedures
• Anyone can apply • Criteria: Persecuted and communicating• Novelist, journalist, blogger, publisher, translator,
poet, non-fiction writer, cartoonist, singer-song writer, playwright…
• External application assessment – PEN International WiPC
Mansur Rajih Yemen/Stavanger
Andrei NekrasovRussia/Haugesund
Sihem Bensedrine Tunisia/Barcelona
Future scenarios
• Geographical expansion• Unionists and violinists• Cooperation!
