Paul Polansky
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| Paul Polansky | |
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| Born | Mason City, Iowa, United States |
| Occupation | author |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Marquette University |
| Genres | Poetry Human Rights Oral histories |
| Subjects | Roma (Gypsies), Boxing |
| Notable award(s) | City of Weimar Human Rights Award, 2004 |
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Paul Polansky is an American author and activist working for the rights of the Roma people in Eastern Europe and the Balkans.[1] He has also lived with Roma for the past ten years in Eastern Europe, collecting their oral histories[2] and writing several books[2] about their lives in the Czech republic and Kosovo,[1] Serbia, and Macedonia. Today he heads the Kosovo Roma Refugee Foundation (KRRF), an NGO working with the afflicted residents of the UN Camps in north Kosovo. From July 1999 until September 2009 he was head of mission for the Society for Threatened Peoples in Kosovo and Serbia. On December 10, 2004, the City Council of Weimar awarded its "Human Rights Award" to Polansky.[citation needed]
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[edit] Author
Polansky has published twenty-seven books, including eighteen books of poetry, and a number of non-fiction books[citation needed] including UN-Leaded Blood, which denounces described the inaction of UNMIK, as many children died from lead poisoning in the UN camps in north Kosovo.
[edit] Film
Polansky produced a documentary film, Gypsy Blood, which won best informative film at the 2005 Golden Wheel International Film Festival in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.[citation needed]
Polansky was closely involved in a further exposé of inaction regarding the continuing lead poisoning of Roma in north Mitrovica. Dateline's UN's Toxic Shame by Amos Roberts, a scathing review of the UN's inaction on this scandal, aired in Australia on 26th April 2009.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ a b (English) "Roma and Ashkali in Kosovo: Persecuted, driven out, poisened" (article.) Society for Threatened Peoples. Accessed September 2011.
- ^ a b September 23, 1998. "Paul Polansky: The road to Lety." The Prague Post. Accessed September 2011.
- ^ "UN's Toxic Shame". SBS Dateline. April 26, 2009. http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story/about/id/600035/n/UN-s-Toxic-Shame. Retrieved 9 October 2010.
[edit] External links
- "Toxic camp angers Kosovo Roma" BBC website 2005
- "Kosovo's poisoned generation" BBC website 2009
- Official Website
- Ocarthaigh, Thomas (July 30, 2008)."Paul Polansky and the Kosovo Roma." The Telegraph. Accessed September 2011.
