6 hours agoHRW: UN compensates minorities in Kosovo that were poisoned with lead residue
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)The Human Rights Organization “Human Rights Watch” has called on the United Nations to compensate for the Roma community and other minorities in Kosovo, who now suffer from lead residue poisoning after moving to United Nations camps in the late 1990s. In a report [...]
A report from the organisation said that about 600 people were forced to leave their homes in Mitrovica after the war in 1998-1999, who had moved to a truck contaminated by an industrial mine.
Human Rights Watch has said that in June, 19 men and women, including children whose families were affected by lead residue poisoning in the camp.
HRW has found that these families now face health problems, kidney problems and memory loss.
Last year, a panel in the United Nations has found that the UN mission in Kosovo in 2000 was aware of possible health problems, but had failed to displace displaced persons, thus violating their rights.
The organisation has said that the United Nations must compensate and apologise to all who remained in the camps, however, that the latter has not.
The United Nations mission has been in Kosovo since the end of the war in 1999, and has helped rule the country until its declaration of independence in 2008.
