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GRAction# 4/05 "Rescue Children from Contaminated Camp / Kosovo"
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Sep 18, 2006
Victory!
We've just received good news from Kosovo, where
the United Nations is at long last providing appropriate medical treatment to
Roma children who are suffering from lead poisoning. The poisoning occurred
while displaced Roma families lived in UN-administered camps that were contaminated
with lead.
Earlier this year a Global Response ... (more)
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Aug 10, 2006
Followup Action
We just received great news from Kosovo: almost all Roma families have been safely relocated from lead-contaminated camps where they lived for seven years. Two of the three lead-contaminated camps have been leveled (Kablare and Zitkovac). A few families remain in the Chesmin Lug camp, but almost everyone is safely ... (more)
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Aug 10, 2006
Victory!
We
just received great news from Kosovo: almost all Roma families have been safely
relocated from lead-contaminated camps where they lived for seven years. Two
of the three lead-contaminated camps have been leveled (Kablare and Zitkovac).
A few families remain in the Chesmin Lug camp, but almost everyone is safely
relocated in the new camp Osterode. These ... (more)
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Mar 15, 2006
Update
Roma Seek Justice Internationally After Complete Failure by United Nations to Prevent or Remedy Extreme Environmental Harms
20 February 2006: Budapest, Hungary.
The European Roma Rights Centre filed today an application with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ... (more)
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Jan 13, 2006
Update
Our letters to United Nations officials in Kosovo are having the desired effect! After six years of inaction, the U.N. mission in Kosovo just now opened a camp where 125 Roma families can live while awaiting construction of permanent housing. The Roma families are being relocated from three U.N.- administered camps for displaced persons, where they have been exposed to constant and ... (more)
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Jan 13, 2006
Update
Source: Agence France-Presse (AFP)
Date: 10 Jan 2006 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Serbia-Montenegro, Jan 10, 2006 (AFP) - Several hundred
Kosovo Roma living in makeshift camps near the waste dump of a lead mine on
Tuesday refused to move into UN-proposed temporary housing in former
military barracks. "We do not want to move into another ... (more)
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