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JOIN HRF FOR THE FIRST COLLEGE FREEDOM FORUM AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON (October 24, 2013)—The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is pleased to invite you to join the first College Freedom Forum (CFF), to be held at Tufts University on November 5, 2013, from 5:00pm to 8:00pm at Cohen Auditorium, located at 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA. CFF will be a one-evening event featuring five individuals from around the world who will give inspiring talks and sit for a question and answer session with the audience. Speakers include Equatoguinean human rights lawyer Tutu Alicante; Egyptian journalist and Financial Times Gulf news editor Abeer Allam; Moroccan journalist and media entrepreneur Ahmed Benchemsi; Iranian author and former prisoner of conscience Marina Nemat; and Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) president and CEO Hannah Song. A joint initiative of HRF and the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL), CFF at Tufts seeks to bring the experience of HRF’s annual human rights summit, the Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF), to college campuses and university audiences. Admission to the event is free. Pizza will be served in the lobby of the auditorium from 5:00 to 5:45pm, with talks following at 6:00pm. RSVP to CFF on Facebook, and join the conversation on Twitter using #CFF. OFF is HRF’s annual summit of activists, business leaders, media, technologists, artists, and policymakers who gather in Norway each spring to exchange ideas on how to better promote and protect human rights globally. IGL, HRF’s partner in this event, is an incubator of innovative ways to educate learners at all levels in understanding difficult and compelling global issues. IGL develops new generations of critical thinkers for effective and ethical leadership who are able to comprehend and deal with complexity, to bridge cultural and political differences and to engage as responsible global citizens in anticipating and confronting the world's most pressing problems. IGL is the founding partner of the Oslo Scholars Program, an HRF initiative that connects OFF speakers with university students each year during a multi-month summer project. Scholars meet their mentors in Oslo and then spend their summers gaining first-hand experience in the human rights field by working in places as diverse as Angola, Pakistan, Peru, Singapore, South Korea, and Tibet. For questions or more information, please contact Alex Gladstein at alex@humanrightsfoundation.org. HRF is a nonprofit nonpartisan organization that protects and promotes human rights globally, with an expertise in the Americas. We believe that all human beings are entitled to freedom of self-determination, freedom from tyranny, the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries; HRF’s ideals likewise find expression in the conviction that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience. HRF does not support nor condone violence. HRF’s International Council includes human rights advocates George Ayittey, Vladimir Bukovsky, Palden Gyatso, Garry Kasparov, Mutabar Tadjibaeva, Ramón J. Velásquez, Elie Wiesel, and Harry Wu. View this release on our website here.