Admission is free.
The morning session will include a roundtable discussion on human rights as four experts interact with students who have participated in a human rights seminar this semester and who have prepared papers to be presented during the conference. The roundtable speakers include Flavia Pansieri, deputy director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women, who will discuss the role of human rights in international development work. The executive director of the National Labor Committee Education Fund Support of Worker and Human Rights in Central America, Charles Kernaghan, will relate the plight of workers in factories around the world who make our consumer products under sweatshop conditions. Father Lawrence Lucas, administrative chaplain with the New York City Department of Corrections and pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Church in New York City, will speak about the prison-industrial complex and its impact on human rights. Father Lucas is an author, lecturer and community activist.