Committees

The Committees of International PEN include the Writers for Peace Committee, Translation & Linguistic Rights Committee, Women Writers' Committee and the Writers in Prison Committee. Each Committee has an International Chair who reports to the Board of International PEN and is supported in their work by the Secretariat. All of the Committees, except for the Writers' in Prison Committee, are based in a PEN Centre.

The Committees lead dialogue and programmes on related issues and themes at an international, regional and Centre level. Individual Centres choose which of the Committees' areas of activity they would like to participate in and nominate a lead representative.