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Lisa Kristine: Photos that bear witness to modern slavery
Lisa Kristine: Fotografije, ki pričajo o modernem suženjstvu
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Zadnji dve leti fotografinja Lisa Kristine potuje po svetu in dokumentira neznosno težka dejstva o modernem suženjstvu. Prikaže nam tesnobno lepe podobe - rudarjev v Kongu, opekarjev v Nepalu - in osvetli stisko 27 milijonov zasužnjenih ljudi z vsega sveta. (Posneto na TEDxMaui)
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I'm 150 feet down an illegal mine shaft in Ghana.
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Nahajam se 45 metrov pod zemljo v ilegalnem rudniku v Gani.
00:23
The air is thick with heat and dust,
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V od vročine in prahu gostem zraku
00:27
and it's hard to breathe.
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je težko dihati.
00:30
I can feel the brush of sweaty bodies passing me
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Čutim, kako mimo mene v temi gredo prepotena telesa,
00:33
in the darkness, but I can't see much else.
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kaj dosti drugega pa ne vidim.
00:38
I hear voices talking, but mostly the shaft
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Slišim glasove, vendar jašek večinoma nudi le
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is this cacophony of men coughing,
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zmešnjavo kašljajočih mož
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and stone being broken with primitive tools.
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in zvokov kamna, ki ga lomijo s primitivnim orodjem.
00:49
Like the others, I wear a flickering, cheap flashlight
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Kot drugi, tudi jaz nosim utripajočo poceni svetilko,
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tied to my head with this elastic, tattered band,
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pritrjeno na glavo z elastičnim natrganim trakom,
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and I can barely make out the slick tree limbs
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in komaj razpoznam tanka debla dreves,
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holding up the walls of the three-foot square hole
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ki podpirajo stene te ozke, pol kvadratnega metra široke luknje,
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dropping hundreds of feet into the earth.
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segajoče na stotine čevljev v zemljo.
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When my hand slips, I suddenly remember a miner
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Ko mi roka zdrsne, se spomnim rudarja,
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I had met days before who had lost his grip
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ki sem ga spoznala pred dnevi in ki mu je zdrsnilo
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and fell countless feet down that shaft.
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ter je padel globoko dol po rovu.
01:21
As I stand talking to you today,
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In medtem ko jaz danes tule govorim z vami,
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these men are still deep in that hole,
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so ti možje še vedno globoko v jami
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risking their lives without payment or compensation,
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in tvegajo svoja življenja brez plačila ali odškodnine
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and often dying.
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ter pogosto izgubijo življenje.
01:34
I got to climb out of that hole, and I got to go home,
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Uspelo mi je splezati iz jaška in iti domov,
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but they likely never will, because they're trapped in slavery.
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njim pa verjetno ne bo nikoli, saj so ujeti v suženjstvu.
01:45
For the last 28 years, I've been documenting
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Zadnjih 28 let dokumentiram
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indigenous cultures in more than 70 countries
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prvobitne kulture v več kot 70 državah
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on six continents, and in 2009 I had the great honor
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na šestih celinah. Leta 2009 sem imela čast
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of being the sole exhibitor at the Vancouver Peace Summit.
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edina razstavljati na mirovnem vrhu v Vancouvru.
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Amongst all the astonishing people I met there,
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Med neverjetnimi ljudmi, ki sem jih tam spoznala,
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I met a supporter of Free the Slaves, an NGO
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je bil podpornik nevladne organizacije Free the Slaves,
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dedicated to eradicating modern day slavery.
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ki se zavzema za odpravo modernega suženjstva.
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We started talking about slavery, and really,
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Pogovarjala sva se o suženjstvu in dejansko
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I started learning about slavery,
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sem se začela učiti o tem,
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for I had certainly known it existed in the world,
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saj sem vedela, da suženjstvo obstaja,
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but not to such a degree.
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ampak ne, da je tako razširjeno.
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After we finished talking, I felt so horrible
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Po pogovoru sem se počutila grozno
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and honestly ashamed at my own lack of knowledge
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in iskreno osramočeno zaradi pomanjkanja znanja
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of this atrocity in my own lifetime, and I thought,
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o tej strahoti, ki se dogaja zdaj, in pomislila sem,
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if I don't know, how many other people don't know?
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če jaz ne vem, koliko drugih ljudi tudi ne ve?
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It started burning a hole in my stomach, so within weeks,
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To me je začelo gristi in v nekaj tednih
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I flew down to Los Angeles to meet with the director
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sem poletela v Los Angeles in se srečala z direktorjem
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of Free the Slaves and offer them my help.
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organizacije Free the Slaves ter ponudila pomoč.
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Thus began my journey into modern day slavery.
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Tako se je začelo moje potovanje skozi moderno suženjstvo.
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Oddly, I had been to many of these places before.
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Zanimivo je, da sem bila v mnogih od teh krajev že prej.
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Some I even considered like my second home.
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Nekatere sem celo imela za svoj drugi dom.
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But this time, I would see the skeletons hidden in the closet.
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A tokrat sem videla okostnjake v omari.
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A conservative estimate tells us there are more than
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Ocenjujejo, da je danes zasužnjenih
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27 million people enslaved in the world today.
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več kot 27 milijonov ljudi.
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That's double the amount of people taken from Africa
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To je dvakrat toliko ljudi kot jih je bilo iz Afrike odpeljanih
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during the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade.
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v času čezatlantske trgovine s sužnji.
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A hundred and fifty years ago, an agricultural slave
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Pred 150 leti je suženj na kmetiji
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cost about three times the annual salary
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stal približno trikratno letno plačo
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of an American worker.
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ameriškega delavca.
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That equates to about $50,000 in today's money.
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To bi danes pomenilo okoli 50.000 USD.
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Yet today, entire families can be enslaved for generations
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Dandanes lahko zasužnijo cele generacije družin
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over a debt as small as $18.
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zaradi borih 18 USD dolga.
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Astonishingly, slavery generates profits
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Presenetljivo je, da suženjstvo po svetu prinaša
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of more than $13 billion worldwide each year.
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preko 13 milijard USD dobička letno.
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Many have been tricked by false promises
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Veliko ljudi so speljale lažne obljube
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of a good education, a better job, only to find
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o dobri izobrazbi, boljši službi, znašli pa so se
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that they're forced to work without pay
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v delu brez plačila
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under the threat of violence, and they cannot walk away.
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pod grožnjo nasilja in brez možnosti odhoda.
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Today's slavery is about commerce,
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Današnje suženjstvo je trgovina,
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so the goods that enslaved people produce have value,
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blago, ki ga sužnji proizvajajo, ima vrednost,
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but the people producing them are disposable.
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vendar so ljudje kot taki brez vrednosti.
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Slavery exists everywhere, nearly, in the world,
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Suženjstvo obstaja skoraj povsod po svetu,
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and yet it is illegal everywhere in the world.
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čeprav je povsod prepovedano.
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In India and Nepal, I was introduced to the brick kilns.
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V Indiji in Nepalu sem se seznanila z opekarnami.
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This strange and awesome sight was like
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Ta čuden in nenavaden prizor me je spominjal
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walking into ancient Egypt or Dante's Inferno.
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na stari Egipt ali Dantejev Pekel.
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Enveloped in temperatures of 130 degrees,
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Pri temperaturah preko 50 stopinj Celzija
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men, women, children, entire families in fact,
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so moški, ženske, otroci, celotne družine,
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were cloaked in a heavy blanket of dust,
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stisnjeni v težak objem prahu
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while mechanically stacking bricks on their head,
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mehanično nalagali opeke na glave,
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up to 18 at a time, and carrying them
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do 18 naenkrat, in jih nosili
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from the scorching kilns to trucks hundreds of yards away.
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od vročih peči k tovornjakom stotine metrov stran.
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Deadened by monotony and exhaustion,
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Omrtvičeni od enoličnosti in izčrpanosti
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they work silently, doing this task over and over
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so delali v tišini ter ponavljali vedno isto nalogo
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for 16 or 17 hours a day.
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po 16 ali 17 ur na dan.
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There were no breaks for food, no water breaks,
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Ni bilo odmorov za hrano, za vodo,
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and the severe dehydration made urinating
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zaradi hude dehidracije je opravljanje potrebe
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pretty much inconsequential.
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postalo precej nesmiselno.
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So pervasive was the heat and the dust
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Vročina in prah sta bila tako vseprisotna,
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that my camera became too hot to even touch
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da je moj fotoaparat postal prevroč celo na dotik
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and ceased working.
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in je nehal delovati.
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Every 20 minutes, I'd have to run back to our cruiser
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Vsakih 20 minut sem se morala vrniti k avtomobilu,
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to clean out my gear and run it under an air conditioner
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očistiti opremo in jo postaviti pod klimatsko napravo,
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to revive it, and as I sat there,
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da bi spet oživela. Ko sem sedela tam,
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I thought, my camera is getting far better treatment
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sem pomislila, da se mojemu fotoaparatu godi bolje
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than these people.
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kot tem ljudem.
05:53
Back in the kilns, I wanted to cry,
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V opekarni mi je šlo na jok,
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but the abolitionist next to me quickly grabbed me
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a abolicionist poleg mene me je zgrabil
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and he said, "Lisa, don't do that. Just don't do that here."
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in rekel: "Lisa, nikar. Ne tukaj."
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And he very clearly explained to me that emotional displays
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Pojasnil mi je, da je izkazovanje čustev
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are very dangerous in a place like this,
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na takih mestih zelo nevarno,
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not just for me, but for them.
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ne le zame, pač pa zanje.
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I couldn't offer them any direct help.
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Nisem jim mogla neposredno pomagati.
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I couldn't give them money, nothing.
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Nisem jim mogla dati denarja, ničesar.
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I wasn't a citizen of that country.
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Nisem bila državljanka tiste države.
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I could get them in a worse situation
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Lahko bi jih spravila v še slabši položaj
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than they were already in.
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od trenutnega.
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I'd have to rely on Free the Slaves to work
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Zanesti sem se morala, da bodo Free the Slaves
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within the system for their liberation,
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znotraj sistema delovali za njihovo osvoboditev,
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and I trusted that they would.
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in verjela sem, da bodo.
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As for me, I'd have to wait until I got home
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Sama sem morala do vrnitve domov počakati,
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to really feel my heartbreak.
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da sem začutila pravo bolečino.
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In the Himalayas, I found children carrying stone
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V Himalaji sem našla otroke, ki so nosili kamne
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for miles down mountainous terrain
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milje daleč navzdol po gorskem terenu,
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to trucks waiting at roads below.
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vse do tovornjakov na cesti.
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The big sheets of slate were heavier
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Velike skale so bile težje
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than the children carrying them,
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od otrok, ki so jih nosili;
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and the kids hoisted them from their heads
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nadeli so si jih preko glave
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using these handmade harnesses of sticks and rope
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s pomočjo ročno izdelanih vzvodov iz palic in vrvi
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and torn cloth.
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ter strganega blaga.
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It's difficult to witness something so overwhelming.
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Težko je biti priča nečemu tako strašnemu.
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How can we affect something so insidious,
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Kako lahko vplivamo na nekaj tako zahrbtnega,
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yet so pervasive?
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a hkrati tako prisotnega?
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Some don't even know they're enslaved,
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Nekateri sploh ne vedo, da so zasužnjeni,
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people working 16, 17 hours a day without any pay,
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delajo po 16, 17 ur na dan brez plačila,
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because this has been the case all their lives.
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saj to počnejo že vse življenje.
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They have nothing to compare it to.
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Z ničimer se ne morejo primerjati.
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When these villagers claimed their freedom,
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Ko so ti vaščani zahtevali svobodo,
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the slaveholders burned down all of their houses.
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so sužnjelastniki zažgali vse njihove domove.
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I mean, these people had nothing,
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To ljudje že tako niso imeli ničesar
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and they were so petrified, they wanted to give up,
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in bilo jih je tako strah, da so se hoteli vdati,
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but the woman in the center rallied for them to persevere,
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a ženska tule v sredini jih je nagovorila, naj vztrajajo,
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and abolitionists on the ground
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abolicionisti pa so jim
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helped them get a quarry lease of their own,
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pomagali najeti lasten kamnolom,
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so that now they do the same back-breaking work,
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tako da lahko sedaj opravljajo isto uničujoče delo,
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but they do it for themselves, and they get paid for it,
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vendar to počnejo zase in so plačani
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and they do it in freedom.
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ter svobodni.
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Sex trafficking is what we often think of
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Spolno suženjstvo je nekaj, na kar pogosto pomislimo,
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when we hear the word slavery,
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ko slišimo besedo suženjstvo
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and because of this worldwide awareness,
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in zaradi te splošne ozaveščenosti
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I was warned that it would be difficult for me to work safely
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so me opozorili,da bom težko varno delala
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within this particular industry.
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znotraj te industrije.
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In Kathmandu, I was escorted by women who had
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V Katmanduju so me spremljale ženske, ki so
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previously been sex slaves themselves.
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bile nekoč same spolne sužnje.
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They ushered me down a narrow set of stairs
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Peljale so me navzdol po ozkih stopnicah
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that led to this dirty, dimly fluorescent lit basement.
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v umazano, šibko fluorescenčno osvetljeno klet.
08:30
This wasn't a brothel, per se.
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Sam po sebi to ni bil bordel.
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It was more like a restaurant.
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Šlo je bolj za restavracijo.
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Cabin restaurants, as they're known in the trade,
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Kabinske restavracije, kot jim pravijo v branži,
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are venues for forced prostitution.
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so kraji prisilne prostitucije.
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Each has small, private rooms, where the slaves,
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Vsaka ima majhne zasebne sobe, kjer so sužnji,
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women, along with young girls and boys,
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ženske, mlada dekleta in fantje,
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some as young as seven years old,
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nekateri stari le sedem let,
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are forced to entertain the clients,
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prisiljeni zabavati stranke
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encouraging them to buy more food and alcohol.
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in jih spodbujati, da kupijo več hrane in alkohola.
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Each cubicle is dark and dingy,
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Vsaka kabina je temna in umazana,
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identified with a painted number on the wall,
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razlikujejo se le po številki na zidu
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and partitioned by plywood and a curtain.
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in med seboj so ločene z vezanimi ploščami in zaveso.
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The workers here often endure tragic sexual abuse
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Delavci so tu pogosto žrtve tragičnih spolnih zlorab
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at the hands of their customers.
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v rokah svojih strank.
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Standing in the near darkness, I remember feeling
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V skoraj popolni temi sem čutila
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this quick, hot fear, and in that instant,
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ta hiter, vroč strah in v tistem trenutku
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I could only imagine what it must be like
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sem si lahko samo predstavljala, kako mora biti,
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to be trapped in that hell.
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če si ujet v tem peklu.
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I had only one way out: the stairs from where I'd come in.
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Sama sem imela en izhod: stopnice, po katerih sem se spustila noter.
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There were no back doors.
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Ni bilo stranskih vrat.
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There were no windows large enough to climb through.
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Ni bilo dovolj velikih oken, skozi katera bi se dalo splezati.
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These people have no escape at all,
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Ti ljudje nimajo izhoda
09:36
and as we take in such a difficult subject,
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in ko govorimo o takih težkih temah,
09:39
it's important to note that slavery, including sex trafficking,
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se je treba zavedati, da se suženjstvo, vključno s spolnimi sužnji,
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occurs in our own backyard as well.
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dogaja tudi za zidovi okoli nas.
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Tens of hundreds of people are enslaved in agriculture,
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Na tisoče ljudi je zasužnjenih v kmetijstvu,
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in restaurants, in domestic servitude,
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v restavracijah, v prisilnem gospodinjskem delu,
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and the list can go on.
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seznam je brez konca.
09:57
Recently, the New York Times reported that
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Pred kratkim je New York Times poročal,
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between 100,000 and 300,000 American children
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da vsako leto v spolno suženjstvo prodajo
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are sold into sex slavery every year.
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med 100.000 in 300.000 ameriških otrok.
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It's all around us. We just don't see it.
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Vse okoli nas je. Samo ne vidimo ga.
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The textile industry is another one we often think of
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Tekstilna industrija je še ena, na katero pogosto pomislimo,
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when we hear about slave labor.
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ko slišimo o suženjskem delu.
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I visited villages in India where entire families were enslaved
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Obiskala sem vasi v Indiji, kjer so celotne družine zasužnjene
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in the silk trade.
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v trgovini s svilo.
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This is a family portrait.
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To je družinski portret.
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The dyed black hands are the father, while the blue
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Črno obarvane roke so očetove, medtem ko so
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and red hands are his sons.
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modre in rdeče roke sinov.
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They mix dye in these big barrels,
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Barvo mešajo v velikih sodih,
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and they submerge the silk into the liquid up to their elbows,
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v katere potem potopijo svilo do komolcev globoko,
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but the dye is toxic.
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vendar je barva strupena.
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My interpreter told me their stories.
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Prevajalec mi je povedal njihove zgodbe.
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"We have no freedom," they said.
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"Nismo svobodni," so dejali.
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"We hope still, though, that we could leave this house
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"A vseeno upamo, da bomo nekoč lahko zapustili to hišo
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someday and go someplace else
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in odšli kam drugam,
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where we actually get paid for our dyeing."
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kjer bomo plačani za barvanje."
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It's estimated that more than 4,000 children
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Ocenjujejo, da je več kot 4.000 otrok
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are enslaved on Lake Volta,
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sužnjev na jezeru Volta,
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the largest man-made lake in the world.
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največjem umetnem jezeru na svetu.
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When we first arrived, I went to have a quick look.
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Ko smo prispeli, sem si kraj na hitro ogledala.
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I saw what seemed to be a family fishing on a boat,
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Kar sem videla, je izgledalo kot družina, ki ribari,
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two older brothers, some younger kids, makes sense right?
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dva starejša brata, nekaj mlajših otrok, logično, ne?
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Wrong. They were all enslaved.
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Napaka. Vsi so bili sužnji.
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Children are taken from their families
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Otroke odvzamejo družinam
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and trafficked and vanished,
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in jih prodajo; otroci izginejo
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and they're forced to work endless hours on these boats
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in so neskončne ure prisiljeni delati na teh čolnih
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on the lake, even though they do not know how to swim.
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na jezeru, čeprav ne znajo plavati.
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This young child is eight years old.
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Tale otrok je star osem let.
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He was trembling when our boat approached,
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Trepetal je, ko se je približal naš čoln,
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frightened it would run over his tiny canoe.
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od strahu, da bomo povozili njegov mali kanu.
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He was petrified he would be knocked in the water.
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Bal se je, da bo padel v vodo.
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The skeletal tree limbs submerged in Lake Volta
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Koščene veje dreves pod gladino jezera Volta
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often catch the fishing nets, and weary,
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pogosto ujamejo ribiške mreže
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frightened children are thrown into the water
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in preplašene otroke vržejo v vodo,
12:08
to untether the lines.
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da bi jih odvozlali.
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Many of them drown.
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Veliko jih utone.
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For as long as he can recall, he's been forced to work
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Kolikor daleč nazaj mu sega spomin, je moral delati
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on the lake.
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na jezeru.
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Terrified of his master, he will not run away,
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V hudem strahu pred gospodarjem ne pobegne
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and since he's been treated with cruelty all his life,
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in ker so bili z njim vedno kruti,
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he passes that down to the younger slaves
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to prenaša na mlajše sužnje,
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that he manages.
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ki jih nadzoruje.
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I met these boys at five in the morning,
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Te fante sem srečala ob petih zjutraj,
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when they were hauling in the last of their nets,
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ko so iz mrež pobirali zadnje kose,
12:36
but they had been working since 1 a.m.
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a delali so že od enih naprej,
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in the cold, windy night.
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v mrzli, vetrovni noči.
12:42
And it's important to note that these nets weigh
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Treba je vedeti, da te mreže tehtajo
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more than a thousand pounds when they're full of fish.
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več kot petsto kilogramov, če so polne rib.
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I want to introduce you to Kofi.
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Rada bi vam predstavila Kofija.
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Kofi was rescued from a fishing village.
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Kofija so rešili iz ribiške vasi.
12:58
I met him at a shelter where Free the Slaves
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Spoznala sem ga v zavetišču, v katerem Free the Slaves
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rehabilitates victims of slavery.
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rehabilitira žrtve suženjstva.
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Here he's seen taking a bath at the well,
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Tu ga vidimo, ko se kopa pri vodnjaku,
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pouring big buckets of water over his head,
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zlivajoč velika vedra vode preko glave,
13:09
and the wonderful news is,
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in dobra vest je,
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as you and I are sitting here talking today,
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da je, medtem ko sedimo tukaj in govorimo,
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Kofi has been reunited with his family,
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Kofi spet pri svoji družini,
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and what's even better, his family has been given tools
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in kar je še bolje, družina je dobila orodje,
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to make a living and to keep their children safe.
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ki jim omogoča, da preživijo in da so njihovi otroci varni.
13:25
Kofi is the embodiment of possibility.
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Kofi uteleša možnosti.
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Who will he become because someone took a stand
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Kaj bo postal, ker se je nekdo zavzel
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and made a difference in his life?
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in mu spremenil življenje?
13:38
Driving down a road in Ghana
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Med vožnjo po Gani
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with partners of Free the Slaves,
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s partnerji iz Free the Slaves
13:42
a fellow abolitionist on a moped suddenly sped up
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je eden od sodelavcev na motorju nenadoma pospešil
13:45
to our cruiser and tapped on the window.
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do našega avtomobila in potrkal na okno.
13:48
He told us to follow him down a dirt road into the jungle.
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Naročil nam je, naj mu sledimo po gozdni poti v džunglo.
13:53
At the end of the road, he urged us out of the car,
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Na koncu poti smo morali izstopiti,
13:56
and told the driver to quickly leave.
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vozniku pa je naročil, naj odpelje stran.
13:58
Then he pointed toward this barely visible footpath,
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Potem je pokazal na komaj vidno stezo
14:02
and said, "This is the path, this is the path. Go."
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in dejal: "To je pot, to je pot. Pojdite."
14:06
As we started down the path, we pushed aside the vines
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Sprva smo med potjo morali odrivati veje,
14:09
blocking the way, and after about an hour of walking in,
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ki so nas ovirale, in po približno uri hoje
14:13
found that the trail had become flooded by recent rains,
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smo prišli do nedavno poplavljenega dela,
14:19
so I hoisted the photo gear above my head
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zato sem fotografsko opremo dvignila nad glavo,
14:20
as we descended into these waters up to my chest.
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preden sem se spustila v vodo, segajočo do prsi.
14:25
After another two hours of hiking, the winding trail
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Po še dveh urah hoje se je zavita pot
14:29
abruptly ended at a clearing, and before us
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nenadoma končala na čistini in pred nami
14:33
was a mass of holes
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je bila množica lukenj,
14:35
that could fit into the size of a football field,
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ki bi napolnile nogometno igrišče;
14:39
and all of them were full of enslaved people laboring.
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vse so bile polne zasužnjenih delavcev.
14:44
Many women had children strapped to their backs
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Veliko žensk je imelo na hrbtih privezane otroke,
14:48
while they were panning for gold,
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medtem ko so iskale zlato,
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wading in water poisoned by mercury.
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hodeč po vodi, zastrupljeni s svincem.
14:54
Mercury is used in the extraction process.
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Svinec uporabljajo v postopku pridobivanja zlata.
14:59
These miners are enslaved in a mine shaft
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Ti rudarji so sužnji v rudniškem jašku
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in another part of Ghana.
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v nekem drugem delu Gane.
15:05
When they came out of the shaft, they were soaking wet
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Ko so prišli iz jaška, so bili premočeni do kože
15:08
from their own sweat.
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od lastnega znoja.
15:10
I remember looking into their tired, bloodshot eyes,
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Spomnim se njihovih utrujenih, krvavih oči,
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for many of them had been underground for 72 hours.
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saj so bili mnogi pod zemljo 72 ur.
15:20
The shafts are up to 300 feet deep, and they carry out
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Jaški so globoki do 100 metrov, iz njih pa prinašajo
15:24
heavy bags of stone that later will be transported
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težke vreče kamenja, ki ga transportirajo
15:27
to another area, where the stone will be pounded
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na drugo območje, kjer ga razdrobijo
15:30
so that they can extract the gold.
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in iz njega pridobivajo zlato.
15:34
At first glance, the pounding site seems full
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Na prvi pogled nahajališče izgleda polno
15:38
of powerful men, but when we look closer,
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močnih moških, a ko pogledamo od blizu,
15:43
we see some less fortunate working on the fringes,
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vidimo, da ob strani delajo tisti z manj sreče
15:48
and children too.
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ter otroci.
15:50
All of them are victim to injury, illness and violence.
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Vsi so žrtve poškodb, bolezni in nasilja.
15:57
In fact, it's very likely that this muscular person
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Pravzaprav je zelo verjetno, da bo ta mišičnjak
16:01
will end up like this one here, racked with tuberculosis
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končal kot eden od teh, s tuberkulozo
16:06
and mercury poisoning in just a few years.
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in zastrupitvijo s svincem, in to v le nekaj letih.
16:11
This is Manuru. When his father died,
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To je Manuru. Ko je njegov oče umrl,
16:15
his uncle trafficked him to work with him in the mines.
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ga je stric prodal za delo v rudnikih.
16:18
When his uncle died, Manuru inherited his uncle's debt,
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Ko je umrl še stric, je Manuru podedoval njegov dolg,
16:23
which further forced him into being enslaved in the mines.
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kar ga je prisililo v suženjstvo v rudnikih.
16:28
When I met him, he had been working in the mines
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Ko sem ga spoznala, je v rudnikih delal že
16:30
for 14 years, and the leg injury that you see here
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14 let in poškodba noge, ki jo vidite,
16:35
is actually from a mining accident,
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je posledica rudarske nesreče.
16:37
one so severe doctors say his leg should be amputated.
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Tako huda je, da zdravniki menijo, da je potrebna amputacija.
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On top of that, Manuru has tuberculosis,
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Poleg tega ima Manuru tuberkulozo,
16:46
yet he's still forced to work day in and day out
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vendar mora še vedno vse dni delati
16:49
in that mine shaft.
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v tem rudniškem jašku.
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Even still, he has a dream that he will become free
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Kljub vsemu sanja, da bo postal svoboden
16:57
and become educated with the help of local activists
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in se bo izobrazil s pomočjo lokalnih aktivistov,
17:00
like Free the Slaves,
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kakršni so Free the Slaves.
17:02
and it's this sort of determination,
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Prav ta odločnost
17:05
in the face of unimaginable odds,
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navkljub zelo majhni verjetnosti,
17:08
that fills me with complete awe.
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me navdaja s popolnim občudovanjem.
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I want to shine a light on slavery.
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Luč želim usmeriti na suženjstvo.
17:19
When I was working in the field,
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Ko sem delala na terenu,
17:21
I brought lots of candles with me,
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sem s seboj jemala veliko sveč
17:24
and with the help of my interpreter,
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in s pomočjo prevajalca
17:27
I imparted to the people I was photographing
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sem ljudem, ki sem jih fotografirala,
17:29
that I wanted to illuminate their stories
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razložila, da hočem osvetliti njihove zgodbe
17:32
and their plight,
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in njihov boj.
17:34
so when it was safe for them, and safe for me,
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Ko je bilo varno tako zanje kot zame,
17:38
I made these images.
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sem posnela te fotografije.
17:41
They knew their image would be seen
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Vedeli so, da jih boste videli
17:43
by you out in the world.
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vi tukaj v tem svetu.
17:45
I wanted them to know that we will be bearing witness
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Želela sem, da vedo, da bomo njihove priče
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to them, and that we will do whatever we can
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in da bomo naredili, karkoli je v naši moči,
17:53
to help make a difference in their lives.
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da pomagamo spremeniti njihova življenja.
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I truly believe, if we can see one another
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Iskreno verjamem, da če lahko drug drugega vidimo
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as fellow human beings, then it becomes very difficult
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kot človeška bitja, potem postane zelo težko
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to tolerate atrocities like slavery.
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sprejemati grozodejstva, kakršno je suženjstvo.
18:11
These images are not of issues. They are of people,
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To niso slike problemov. So slike ljudi,
18:14
real people, like you and me, all deserving
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pravih ljudi, kakršni smo vi in jaz, ki si vsi zaslužijo
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of the same rights, dignity and respect
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enake pravice, dostojanstvo in spoštovanje
18:21
in their lives.
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v življenju.
18:23
There is not a day that goes by that I don't think
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Ni dneva, da ne bi pomislila
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of these many beautiful, mistreated people
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na te številne lepe, zlorabljene ljudi,
18:32
I've had the tremendous honor of meeting.
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ki sem jih imela čast spoznati.
18:36
I hope that these images awaken a force
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Upam, da bodo te podobe zbudile silo
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in those who view them, people like you,
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v tistih, ki jih bodo videli, v ljudeh, kot ste vi,
18:43
and I hope that force will ignite a fire,
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in upam, da bo ta sila prižgala ogenj,
18:47
and that fire will shine a light on slavery,
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ki bo usmeril luč na suženjstvo;
18:52
for without that light, the beast of bondage
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kajti brez te svetlobe se lahko pošastna nesvoboda
18:56
can continue to live in the shadows.
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nadaljuje v senci.
18:59
Thank you very much.
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Hvala lepa.
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(Applause)
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(Aplavz)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Lisa Kristine - PhotographerLisa Kristine uses photography to expose deeply human stories.
Why you should listen
Lisa Kristine took an early interest in anthropology and 19th-century photographic printing techniques -- passions that have since predominated her work. In 1999, and again in 2000, she presented her photography at the State of the World Forum. In 2003, she published her first book, A Human Thread, capturing and "intimate and honest portrait of humanity." In 2007, her second book, This Moment, won the bronze metal at the Independent Publisher Book Awards. She also produced two documentary films to accompany each book -- exposing her techniques and the stories behind her photographs. In 2010, Kristine travelled the world in collaboration with Free the Slaves to document the harrowing lives of the enslaved. Slavery was published in 2010.
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