As a refugee from North Korea herself, Grace Jo shares details on her work helping other defectors of this country’s regime in the United States and China, as vice president of the non profit organization North Korean Refugees in the United States (NKinUSA). She first talks about how her story and her family made her […]

Zineb El Rhazoui shares at the College Freedom Forum 2019 the story of how she ended up threaten to death by Muslims after publishing a cartoon at the Charlie Hebdo Magazine, and reflects on the importance of freedom of speech in Muslim countries and equal rights for men and women. Zineb says, she’s called “the […]

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 […]

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 – 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]