Composer Duncan Sheik, nominated for Best Original Score (Spring Awakening), poses at the 2007 Tony Award nominee reception in New York on May 16, 2007. (UPI Photo/Ezio Petersen)United Press International
Dec. 16, 2008
SIEM REAP, Cambodia, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- A group of international rock musicians took part in a concert at the Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia to raise awareness about human trafficking.
Sponsored by the MTV End Exploitation and Trafficking campaign, a project supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development, the event was the first rock concert ever performed at the massive 12th century temple, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
More than 1,200 fans turned out to see and hear The Click Five from the United States, Placebo from the United Kingdom, U.S. Grammy- and Tony Award-winner Duncan Sheik, Australian pop star Kate Miller-Heidke, Cambodian hip-hop icon Pou Klaing and Cambodian pop stars Sokun Nisa, Meas Soksophia and Chorn Sovanrech.
"We're here to call attention to human trafficking, a form of slavery that is as big a problem today as perhaps anytime in history," Placebo lead singer Brian Molko told the invitation-only audience.
The concert also featured traditional Khmer dancers and clips from "Traffic: An MTV Special," a documentary about human trafficking that was funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, the agency said in a news release.
MTV EXIT Director Simon Goff said: "Millions of people are currently living in slavery as a result of being trafficked. This is a grotesque human-rights abuse and we must all act to stop it."
Dec. 16, 2008
SIEM REAP, Cambodia, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- A group of international rock musicians took part in a concert at the Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia to raise awareness about human trafficking.
Sponsored by the MTV End Exploitation and Trafficking campaign, a project supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development, the event was the first rock concert ever performed at the massive 12th century temple, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
More than 1,200 fans turned out to see and hear The Click Five from the United States, Placebo from the United Kingdom, U.S. Grammy- and Tony Award-winner Duncan Sheik, Australian pop star Kate Miller-Heidke, Cambodian hip-hop icon Pou Klaing and Cambodian pop stars Sokun Nisa, Meas Soksophia and Chorn Sovanrech.
"We're here to call attention to human trafficking, a form of slavery that is as big a problem today as perhaps anytime in history," Placebo lead singer Brian Molko told the invitation-only audience.
The concert also featured traditional Khmer dancers and clips from "Traffic: An MTV Special," a documentary about human trafficking that was funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, the agency said in a news release.
MTV EXIT Director Simon Goff said: "Millions of people are currently living in slavery as a result of being trafficked. This is a grotesque human-rights abuse and we must all act to stop it."
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