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Paul Polansky is an American author and activist working for the rights of the Romani people in Eastern Europe and the Balkans.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Roma and Ashkali in Kosovo: Persecuted, driven out, poisened )〕 == Biography == Paul Polansky is a graduate in journalism major, history and speech minors, at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA). In the early 90s, he founded the Czech Historical Research Center (USA),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Paul Polansky: The road to Lety )〕 and holds conferences in several American and European universities in the field of human rights in Eastern Europe. In the 1990s he discovered 40,000 documents in Czech archives on the Gypsy camp Lety run by the Czechs during World War II.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Patrin Web Journal - The Gypsy Genocide )〕 After this discovery, he moved his residence in Czech Republic to pursue his studies, and began to hold conferences, one of them at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.〔http://www.leftcurve.org/lc22webpages/gypsies.html〕 In 1999 Polansky start to work for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, to serve as their advisor on Roma (Gypsy) refugee issues in Kosovo. He went on to become head of the Kosovo Roma Refugee Foundation (KRRF),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Toxic Slag Heaps Poison Children of Kosovo. An Abuse of Fundamental Human Rights of an Ethnic Minority. )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Menschenrechtspreis der Stadt Weimar: Preisträger 2004 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Polansky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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