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!