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The UN expresses regret for north Kosovo’s Roma communities who suffered lead-poisoning in UNMIK-run IDP camps, but does not offer a plan for individual compensation.
After leaked wiretaps showed governing party MPs using racist slurs, Kujtim Pacaku stood up and asked for a public apology. For a day, he became a hero when, surprisingly, he got it.
In its annual report, a UN internal human rights mechanism rails against the UN’s inability to adjudicate human rights abuses, co-operate with investigations, or implement the panel’s findings.
Displaced Roma once housed in camps near the Trepca mine continue to suffer the effects of lead poisoning - and say a UN decision admitting negligence comes too late.
Two university students teach philosophy and science to disadvantaged kids in Neighbourhood 29.
