Oct. 10, 2007

Bismarck, ND — Charles Kernaghan, director of the National Labor Committee, will speak on "Fighting to End Child Labor and Sweatshop Abuses in the Global Economy" on Thursday, October 11, at 11 a.m., in the University of Mary's Arno Gustin Hall.

For more than two decades, Kernaghan has devoted himself to bringing the issue of sweatshop abuses and child labor to the American people, traveling the world to uncover and call attention to worker and human rights abuses by corporate giants. Since 1990, he has served as director of the National Labor Committee (NLC), an independent, nonprofit human rights organization dedicated to helping defend the human rights of workers in the global economy. Investigating and exposing human rights abuses committed by U.S. companies producing goods in the developing world and undertaking public education, research and popular campaigns, under Kernaghan, the NLC has

helped shape the debate over outsourcing, calling for enforceable laws to protect women's and workers' rights and to end the "race to the bottom" in the global economy.

Kernaghan has spoken before numerous government bodies and subcommittees, as well as student, labor, human rights, and community groups, nationwide. He is the recipient of the 2006 Cultural Freedom Award from the Lannan Foundation.

The public is welcome to attend and admission is complimentary.

Thursday's presentation is part of America's Leadership University's fall

semester convocation series. U-Mary convocations, held during a

university-wide free hour, provide a venue for students, faculty, and

individuals who have achieved distinction in their fields to share their

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