April 6, 2005
Clark Lecture Explores China’s Human Rights Role
WORCESTER, MA- Clark University's Department of Sociology and the International Studies Stream (ISS) present a lecture by Li Oiang, the founder and executive director of the China Labor Watch (CLW), on “The Future of Labor Rights and Human Rights in China,” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 13, in the Jefferson Academic Center, Room 218.
Qiang was a factory worker in China for ten years and played a leading role in organizing networks of labor activists before coming to the United States in 2000. The CLW is an independent not-for-profit that seeks the enforcement of labor laws and works to educate both Chinese workers and the international community about labor rights in China. In addition to being CLW director, Qiang also is a visiting scholar at The Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University.
The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, please call the International Studies Stream office at 508-793-7181.
Clark University is a private, co-educational liberal-arts research university with 2,000 undergraduate and 600 graduate students. Since its founding in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in the United States, Clark has challenged convention with innovative programs such as the International Studies Stream, the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the five-year BA/MA programs with the fifth year tuition free for eligible students.
Jane Salerno
Assistant Director, Media Relations
Clark University
(508) 793-7554
jsalerno@clarku.edu
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