Los venezolanos han enfrentado represión a causa de una dictadura que ha durado casi 20 años. Para este College Freedom Forum, Rodrigo Diamanti, comparte algunos de los logros así como desafíos que ha enfrentado como activista en esta dictadura, y cómo el valor de la solidaridad ha sido de gran relevancia en su experiencia. Diamanti relata cómo inició su viaje como activista después de que su abuela fuera atacada en una protesta, a partir de este suceso él decide acompañarla a las manifestacione...
May 08, 2020•12 min
Tras de vivir en un estado socialista liderado por Daniel Ortega desde el 2007, los nicaragüenses ponen en riesgo su vida para luchar por su libertad y justicia. El activista, Félix Maradiaga, comenta sobre el estado actual de Nicaragua debido a la dictadura de Daniel Ortega, y explica la necesidad de mejorar el sistema internacional para que pueda garantizar la libertad de los países. Maradiaga revela las situaciones que un defensor de los derechos humanos puede enfrentar en su lucha por la lib...
May 08, 2020•10 min
El College Freedom Forum 2020 contó con la representación de activistas de Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Bangladesh, Eritrea y Afganistán. Este un evento en el que los estudiantes universitarios tienen la oportunidad de conocer personas de todo el mundo que han sufrido graves violaciones de sus derechos humanos. Junto a ellos, artistas visuales, músicos y líderes de la sociedad civil comparten una experiencia inolvidable de desafío al poder arbitrario que oprime la libertad humana. El CFF at UFM e...
May 08, 2020•2 min
El College Freedom Forum es una iniciativa de Human Rights Foundation (HRF), organización que promueve la defensa de los derechos humanos alrededor del mundo. Está es la quinta edición del evento realizado en la Universidad Francisco Marroquín en la que activistas de diferentes países llegan a presentar su historia y cómo ha sido su lucha por la libertad. El director legal de la fundación, Javier El-Hage, da la bienvenida al evento mencionando algunos datos del impacto que ha tenido la fundación...
May 08, 2020•26 min
El College Freedom Forum es una iniciativa de Human Rights Foundation (HRF), organización que promueve la defensa de los derechos humanos alrededor del mundo. Está es la quinta edición del evento realizado en la Universidad Francisco Marroquín en la que activistas de diferentes países llegan a presentar su historia y cómo ha sido su lucha por la libertad. El director legal de la fundación, Javier El-Hage, da la bienvenida al evento mencionando algunos datos del impacto que ha tenido la fundación...
May 08, 2020•8 min
El pasado 20 de febrero en la Universidad Francisco Marroquín de Guatemala se desarrolló College Freedom Forum, evento anual que expone las historias de activistas de todo el mundo contra la violación de derechos humanos. Una de las conferencistas internacionales invitadas fue Yoani Sánchez, bloguera cubana, que expuso la realidad de la Isla y la importancia del periodismo independiente en un régimen dictatorial. Sánchez indicó que en Cuba, el periodismo independiente lidia con detenciones arbit...
May 08, 2020•12 min
Afghanistan is a country where women are repressed because of their religion, they don’t have the same rights and opportunities as a man. The first female CEO in Afghanistan, Roya Mahboob, came to the College Freedom Forum to share her journey as an entrepreneur and express the impact that a dream can cause in a country. Mahboob describes how education is for women in Afghanistan, how she lived with fear but never lost hope of getting an education. This gave her the courage to go to places that ...
May 08, 2020•10 min
Eritrea is one of the most censored countries in the world, restricting all Eritreans to speak up for their rights and making them live in the oppression of the governmental regime. Vanessa Tsehaye, an activist and founder of the movement One Day Seyoum, came to the College Freedom Forum (CFF) to share her work and experience in the search for freedom for her natal country, Eritrea. The activist remarks that global ignorance affects countries like Eritrea and enables oppressive regimes to contin...
May 08, 2020•13 min
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 de Pie creen que no provocando la violencia es una forma positiva de reaccionar contra los atropellos del régimen autoritario de Morales quien tiene cooptado el Estado bo...
Apr 12, 2019•12 min
Ryan Shae, technology entrepreneur, gives a talk at the College Freedom Forum 2019, on the role that technology is playing on human organization and freedom. Shae states that society is at a crossroads of human organization, between democratic freedom and authoritarian control. On one hand, he explains, we have technologies that give more power to authoritarian governments and on the other, we have technology like social media and apps, that empower individuals to communicate and organize. "We h...
Apr 12, 2019•13 min
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 most protected woman in France”, since for more than four years she has been living under police protection every thay, after she spoke in Muslim media criticizing the religious regime. S...
Apr 12, 2019•13 min
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 en es país, pese a las amenazas y problemas técnicos de mala conexión de internet, colapsos eléctricos y otras dificultades que diariamente les hac...
Apr 12, 2019•18 min
During the North Korean Famine of 1990 to 1998, Grace Jo and her family had to be creative to survive; in this conference she shares her story, that is also the reality that millions of people faced during this time in North Korea, where at least 2.5 million people died from starvation, diseases and hipotermia. Grace narrates the story of both of her parents, who tried to cross the border to China to get food, but were caught and severely tortured. Her father was arrested and forced to admit the...
Apr 12, 2019•12 min
Fred Bauma, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo talks about his work at LUCHA, a non-violent civil organization to promote community changes. He describes the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as a very diverse country with many valuable natural resources; however it is one of the poorest countries in the world due to corruption, miss governments and violent conflicts. This motivated Fred to found LUCHA, to mobilize people against the president, who wanted to reelect himself. Fred shares s...
Apr 12, 2019•12 min
Ti-Anna Wang talks about her father, Wang Bingzhang, a political prisoner currently serving 16 years of a life-sentence for his work in pro-democracy activism. Wang shares how his father decided to devote his life to fight for freedom of chinese people, after being inspired by the ideas of liberty while living in Canada as a PhD student. For twenty years, his father worked for his dream of a democratic China, he sacrificed everything, including his freedom. The past decade of my father’s impriso...
Nov 20, 2018•8 min
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 Venezuela debido a la situación política; por lo que en este vídeo él presenta una disculpa al público por su inasistencia y platica un poco de su trabajo E...
Nov 20, 2018•6 min
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 speech by sharing the time that he was most scared in his life, and how he felt when being abducted by the authorities. Then he tells his story: where he grew up and the...
Nov 20, 2018•14 min
Jerry Sesanga is an author, journalist and filmmaker. He presents an excerpt of his movie The Baby Bride, which highlights how the young girls in Uganda undergone arranged marriage. His films pictures Maria, a very brilliant girl in class who performs very well, when all of the sudden she returns home and finds out her parents have accepted money to give her as a bride. Uganda culture is full of taboos, he says. He tells the story of his mother, who was a child bride and was limited with what sh...
Nov 20, 2018•11 min
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 she has created to bring attention to this topic. 200 million girls and women from all over the world are at risk each year from undergo FGM, Hussein says. She herself b...
Nov 20, 2018•12 min
Desde los inicios del siglo XX, Nicaragua por años ha sido víctima de dictaduras, levantamientos armados, intervención militar extranjera, guerra civil, guerra fría, y en todos esos movimientos miles de muertos hasta que llegó la paz en 1990, pero no por mucho tiempo, porque actualmente con el Gobierno de Daniel Ortega está enfrentando nuevamente una de las peores crisis de la historia. La nicaragüense Edipcia Dubón habla de las agresiones que recibió ella y su partido del Gobierno de Ortega qui...
Nov 20, 2018•12 min
