Comedia en tiempos de dictadura

Daniel Pérez periodista venezolano del Chigüire Bipolar un medio periodístico que lleva la noticia a sus lectores a través de la sátira, expone en College Freedom Forum 2019 información sobre la fuerte crisis humanitaria que está enfrentando su país. A través de un block de noticias, el Chigüire Bipolar comunica los diferentes problemas que acontecen […]

La no violencia contra el autoritarismo

Jhanisse Vaca-Daza fundadora de Ríos de Pie, un movimiento de jóvenes bolivianos participó en el College Freedom Forum 2019, comentando las actividades que realizan a través de la no violencia y la creatividad, con el fin de defender la democracia de su país cooptada por los actos represivos del Gobierno de Evo Morales. En Ríos […]

Edipcia Dubón: Un grito de auxilio desde Nicaragua

College Freedom Forum – UFM 2018 contó con la participación de la activista Edipcia Dubón quien enfrenta una lucha para liberar a Nicaragua de Daniel Ortega un presidente que ha asesinado y encarcelado a más de 400 personas incluyendo menores en 6 meses, solamente por no estar de acuerdo con su régimen. Lo que mueve […]

Leyla Hussein: Advocating Against Female Genital Mutilation

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a practice that involves the removal of some or all of the external female genitalia, and is something that to this day keeps happening around the world. Leyla Hussein shares during this interview her experience and journey of becoming an activist against this injustice. I lived in an environment where […]

Jerry Sesanga: Communicating the Importance of Gender Equality

Art can be a way of freedom, a way for artists to create from their own perspective. Jerry Sesanga shares his adventure becoming a human rights activist and how he got involved in the art field. Young people are now changing, the narrative is changing very much optimistic (…) we are breaking the barriers about […]

Notes to My Activist Self

In this conference of the College Freedom Forum, Wael Ghonim, an Egyptian activist, shares his experience through life that made him became a revolutionary. He mentions the things that reminded him to never give up and continue fighting so that freedom and human rights can be implemented and applied in his country. He starts his […]

The Cruel Cut: Female Genital Mutilation

At the age of 7, Leyla Hussein was a victim of FGM, Female Genital Mutilation, which is when the female genitalia is partially cut or totally removed and the remaining skin is sown together. In her participation in the College Freedom Forum 2018, she shares her horrible experience, some statistics, her awakening and the movement […]

El Chigüire Bipolar: portal de periodismo satírico

Al College Freedom Forum asisten conferencistas de diferentes partes del mundo que comparten situaciones difíciles por las que ellos han pasado o están pasando en su país respecto a al abuso de los derechos humanos. En este caso el comediante Daniel Enrique Pérez es un ciudadano venezolano que no pudo asistir por dificultades de migración en […]

The Citizen Journalists Taking on ISIS in Syria

Abdalaziz Alhamza talks in the College Freedom Forum 2017 about he went from having no political interest to becoming a city journalist that informed the world about the injustices in Syria to change his reality. In March 2011, the Syrian revolution started and Abdalaziz decided to join the demonstrations in the streets; he was arrested […]

The Power of Nonviolent Action in Guatemala and Beyond

Jamila Raqib, executive director of the Albert Einstein Institution shared in the College Freedom Forum 2017 the details about her work against corruption in Romania through nonviolent action and the positive results it has had so far. She describes the current situation of Romania, where society reached a breaking point when the government approved a […]

A Beauty Queen Exposes Organ Trafficking in China

Anastasia Lin, former beauty pageant competitor and human rights advocate in China, was part of 2017’s College Freedom Forum at UFM, where she talks about her inspiring journey, going from a beauty queen declared persona non-grata in China to a committed fighter against human organ trafficking. She was born in Hunan, China. From a very […]

After the Maidan: fighting corruption in Ukraine

Yulia Marushevska, known for publishing the video “I am ukrainian” that went viral in 2014 and her work fighting corruption in her country, was part of 2017’s College Freedom Forum at UFM, where she shared her story. She begins reflecting on the positive similarities between Ukraine and Guatemala, and questions, why are we so poor? […]

Comedia en tiempos de dictadura

Daniel Pérez periodista venezolano del Chigüire Bipolar un medio periodístico que lleva la noticia a sus lectores a través de la sátira, expone en College Freedom Forum 2019 información sobre la fuerte crisis humanitaria que está enfrentando su país. A través de un block de noticias, el Chigüire Bipolar comunica los diferentes problemas que acontecen […]

La no violencia contra el autoritarismo

Jhanisse Vaca-Daza fundadora de Ríos de Pie, un movimiento de jóvenes bolivianos participó en el College Freedom Forum 2019, comentando las actividades que realizan a través de la no violencia y la creatividad, con el fin de defender la democracia de su país cooptada por los actos represivos del Gobierno de Evo Morales. En Ríos […]

Edipcia Dubón: Un grito de auxilio desde Nicaragua

College Freedom Forum – UFM 2018 contó con la participación de la activista Edipcia Dubón quien enfrenta una lucha para liberar a Nicaragua de Daniel Ortega un presidente que ha asesinado y encarcelado a más de 400 personas incluyendo menores en 6 meses, solamente por no estar de acuerdo con su régimen. Lo que mueve […]

Leyla Hussein: Advocating Against Female Genital Mutilation

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a practice that involves the removal of some or all of the external female genitalia, and is something that to this day keeps happening around the world. Leyla Hussein shares during this interview her experience and journey of becoming an activist against this injustice. I lived in an environment where […]

Jerry Sesanga: Communicating the Importance of Gender Equality

Art can be a way of freedom, a way for artists to create from their own perspective. Jerry Sesanga shares his adventure becoming a human rights activist and how he got involved in the art field. Young people are now changing, the narrative is changing very much optimistic (…) we are breaking the barriers about […]

Notes to My Activist Self

In this conference of the College Freedom Forum, Wael Ghonim, an Egyptian activist, shares his experience through life that made him became a revolutionary. He mentions the things that reminded him to never give up and continue fighting so that freedom and human rights can be implemented and applied in his country. He starts his […]

The Cruel Cut: Female Genital Mutilation

At the age of 7, Leyla Hussein was a victim of FGM, Female Genital Mutilation, which is when the female genitalia is partially cut or totally removed and the remaining skin is sown together. In her participation in the College Freedom Forum 2018, she shares her horrible experience, some statistics, her awakening and the movement […]

El Chigüire Bipolar: portal de periodismo satírico

Al College Freedom Forum asisten conferencistas de diferentes partes del mundo que comparten situaciones difíciles por las que ellos han pasado o están pasando en su país respecto a al abuso de los derechos humanos. En este caso el comediante Daniel Enrique Pérez es un ciudadano venezolano que no pudo asistir por dificultades de migración en […]

The Citizen Journalists Taking on ISIS in Syria

Abdalaziz Alhamza talks in the College Freedom Forum 2017 about he went from having no political interest to becoming a city journalist that informed the world about the injustices in Syria to change his reality. In March 2011, the Syrian revolution started and Abdalaziz decided to join the demonstrations in the streets; he was arrested […]

The Power of Nonviolent Action in Guatemala and Beyond

Jamila Raqib, executive director of the Albert Einstein Institution shared in the College Freedom Forum 2017 the details about her work against corruption in Romania through nonviolent action and the positive results it has had so far. She describes the current situation of Romania, where society reached a breaking point when the government approved a […]

A Beauty Queen Exposes Organ Trafficking in China

Anastasia Lin, former beauty pageant competitor and human rights advocate in China, was part of 2017’s College Freedom Forum at UFM, where she talks about her inspiring journey, going from a beauty queen declared persona non-grata in China to a committed fighter against human organ trafficking. She was born in Hunan, China. From a very […]

After the Maidan: fighting corruption in Ukraine

Yulia Marushevska, known for publishing the video “I am ukrainian” that went viral in 2014 and her work fighting corruption in her country, was part of 2017’s College Freedom Forum at UFM, where she shared her story. She begins reflecting on the positive similarities between Ukraine and Guatemala, and questions, why are we so poor? […]

College Freedom Forum

Daniel Pérez periodista venezolano del Chigüire Bipolar un medio periodístico que lleva la noticia a sus lectores a través de la sátira, expone en College Freedom Forum 2019 información sobre la fuerte crisis humanitaria que está enfrentando su país. A través de un block de noticias, el Chigüire Bipolar comunica los diferentes problemas que acontecen […]

College Freedom Forum

Jhanisse Vaca-Daza fundadora de Ríos de Pie, un movimiento de jóvenes bolivianos participó en el College Freedom Forum 2019, comentando las actividades que realizan a través de la no violencia y la creatividad, con el fin de defender la democracia de su país cooptada por los actos represivos del Gobierno de Evo Morales. En Ríos […]

College Freedom Forum

In this conference of the College Freedom Forum, Wael Ghonim, an Egyptian activist, shares his experience through life that made him became a revolutionary. He mentions the things that reminded him to never give up and continue fighting so that freedom and human rights can be implemented and applied in his country. He starts his […]

College Freedom Forum

At the age of 7, Leyla Hussein was a victim of FGM, Female Genital Mutilation, which is when the female genitalia is partially cut or totally removed and the remaining skin is sown together. In her participation in the College Freedom Forum 2018, she shares her horrible experience, some statistics, her awakening and the movement […]

College Freedom Forum

Al College Freedom Forum asisten conferencistas de diferentes partes del mundo que comparten situaciones difíciles por las que ellos han pasado o están pasando en su país respecto a al abuso de los derechos humanos. En este caso el comediante Daniel Enrique Pérez es un ciudadano venezolano que no pudo asistir por dificultades de migración en […]

College Freedom Forum

Abdalaziz Alhamza talks in the College Freedom Forum 2017 about he went from having no political interest to becoming a city journalist that informed the world about the injustices in Syria to change his reality. In March 2011, the Syrian revolution started and Abdalaziz decided to join the demonstrations in the streets; he was arrested […]

College Freedom Forum

Jamila Raqib, executive director of the Albert Einstein Institution shared in the College Freedom Forum 2017 the details about her work against corruption in Romania through nonviolent action and the positive results it has had so far. She describes the current situation of Romania, where society reached a breaking point when the government approved a […]

College Freedom Forum

Anastasia Lin, former beauty pageant competitor and human rights advocate in China, was part of 2017’s College Freedom Forum at UFM, where she talks about her inspiring journey, going from a beauty queen declared persona non-grata in China to a committed fighter against human organ trafficking. She was born in Hunan, China. From a very […]

College Freedom Forum

Yulia Marushevska, known for publishing the video “I am ukrainian” that went viral in 2014 and her work fighting corruption in her country, was part of 2017’s College Freedom Forum at UFM, where she shared her story. She begins reflecting on the positive similarities between Ukraine and Guatemala, and questions, why are we so poor? […]