Why and how there are as young as 12-year-old sex slaves in Colorado?
Today, in 2007,
Why and how there are as young as 12-year-old sex slaves in Colorado?
Today, in 2007, there are more slaves in the world than 200 years ago. Modern slavery is known as human trafficking and it is the fastest growing global crime.
Produced by three University of Colorado students (Spring 2007), "Rocky Mountain Slavery: The Story of Human Trafficking in Colorado" gives the picture of sex trade in the Centennial State.
An undercover investigator, an elected official and other community members share information about this heinous crime that most Coloradoans are not aware of. An ordinary citizen in downtown Denver thinks human trafficking means "lots of people walking on the street." Students find out that there are, indeed, "lost of people" in trafficking, but they are not walking on the street at all. They are isolated, beaten, raped and dehumanized in the most unimaginable ways
Produced by Ashley Garrod, Nico Nagel and Simon Maghakyan. Narrated by Simon Maghakyan. Photographs from official U.S. websites, www.hetq.am or by Simon Maghakyan. Music by Enigma. Released May 10, 2007. For more information visit http://myspace.com/rockymountainslavery
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Featuring a never-seen-before satellite image of a vandalized medieval cemetery at the Ira
Featuring a never-seen-before satellite image of a vandalized medieval cemetery at the Iranian-Azerbaijani border, "The New Tears of Araxes," a five-minute film, tells the tragic story of thousands of ancient Armenian headstones flattened to the ground by the Azerbaijani authorities in Djulfa or Julfa (Jugha in Armenian), Nakhichevan.
On December 15, 2005, eyewitnesses across the River Araxes videotaped Azeri soldiers destroying Armenian burial monuments - khachkars (cross stones) - some as old as 1,500 years. Azerbaijani officials denied the vandalism, but banned European Parliament members from visiting the site in March of 2006. Only a few outside news sources tried to publicize the tragedy.
"The New Tears of Araxes" is written by Sarah Pickman, a University of Chicago student, who was the only American reporter to cover the tragedy when she interned for Archaeology Magazine. Producer and narrator Simon Maghakyan, who is among America's top 20 college students according to USA TODAY (April 24, 2006), hopes the film will break a year of ignorance and silence. When asked why others should care, Maghakyan quotes Martin Luther King Jr. as saying, "Injustice anywhere is threat to justice everywhere."
Music by Djivan Gasparian (Gladiator, The Passion of the Christ, Munich, Syriana); Digital sound track production by Transtar Entertainment Group; Photographs by Research on Armenian Architecture, and Argam Ayvazian; Footage of 2005 destruction by Tabriz's Armenian Church, Iran; Satellite image by Digital Globe; Map by The Times, London. © Simon Maghakyan 2006.
To learn more about the deliberate destruction of the world's largest Armenian archaeological site, visit the Djulfa Virtual Memorial and Museum - http://www.djulfa.com.
Sept 2007 update: Azerbaijani authorities are razing another Armenian cemetery in Baku, the capital city of the South Caucasus republic - http://www.iwpr.net/?p=crs&s=f&o=338840&apc_state=henfcrs338 838
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A tiny but ancient country will have no forests by 2024. A former soviet republic, Armenia
A tiny but ancient country will have no forests by 2024. A former soviet republic, Armenia has faced economic depression caused by blockade by its hostile countries. But corruption and greed are also factor's for deforestation in Armenia.
Deforestation is a large factor for global warming and Armenia is already experiencing ecological health problems among urban populations. Armenia's example is an urgent alert to the world to stop reckless deforestation and conserve forests for future generations.
This video is 2006 All-USA Academic First Team member Simon Maghakyan's first experience in making a film. He prepared the movie in November of 2006 for his Ecological Crises class at the University of Colorado at Denver, where Simon, a native of Armenia, is an undergraduate student in Political Science.
For more information, sources, and credits visit http://foresfree2024.cjb.net/.
Additional tags: Armenian, Armenians, forestry,ecosystem, Nagorno Karabakh, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Chernobyl, corruption, need vs. greed, cold winters, solutions, solar energy.
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