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Along with the Kosovo Roma Refugee Foundation, the Roma Information Foundation, and the Society for Threatened Peoples (Germany and UK), Ms. Post continues to work for the approximately 550 Roma Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Kosovo who were forced for over 9 years to live on lead contaminated toxic land. Two actions have been filed with the United Nations itself since Kosovo has been governed these nine years by the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) who is the responsible party. Actions have also been filed with the ombudsmans office and the local Human Rights Advisory Board (HRAP). Badly needed medical treatment for the affected children finally began on 30 August 2006 after an international letter writing campaign by Global Response. Food aid which was part of the medical treatment was then stopped in July 2007 and the medical treatment itself in October 2007. Thus UNMIK has made known its complete disregard for the health and welfare of the IDPs under its responsibility. Hearings on the situation were held in Brussels, London and Dublin in November 2008. An admissibility decision was made by HRAP on 5 June 2009 and can be found on this web site at "Research and other tidbits". An international advocacy group has a web page at www.toxicwastekills.com and you can go there and see what you can do to help these most forgotten victims.
On behalf of 10 protective mothers, one adult child, and 6 organizations, Post filed a petition with the Inter American Commission on Human Rights on 11 May 2007. The petition was supported by 17 national and state organizations as well. The petition claims that the U.S. is violating the Declaration of Rights and Responsibilities of Man by the policy and practice of giving child custody or unsupervised visitation to abusers and molesters. To read the petition, go to www.stopfamilyviolence.org
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