United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo

Corruption is one of the obstacles constraining the economic and social prosperity in Kosovo (Mehmedi, 2012). In corruption funds are diverted from its initial goal and therefore fields like poverty, inequality, economic growth, the health sector, infrastructure and the education sector are affected severly (Abbink, 2012). The distribution of spending that was going to be payed to workers on this fields, tool and technology, new roads and social service are now being placed somewhere else. It has a direct, severe effect on the countries citizens and therefore the prosperity of the society. This creates a mistrust of the government and institutions when the “misuse of office”, which means when the purpose public institutions is not being pursued,…

unethical, serves as an eye-opener to the rest of the world. Many Americans “are too sheltered and protected from the real world” (Carroll 5) and with this image they will learn the story of Syria and the “thousands of Syrian children caught in an endless war” (TIME). The fact that Hoyt believes that these images aren’t just depicting a sorrowful situation, but also telling a story, encourages one to believe that such images are needed in order to spark a worldwide realization. Celeste, on the…

Coopers book, hope is “symbolized in the West by the anchor, or a woman with a globe, cornucopia, pear or beehive; sometimes she has a galleon in full sail surmounting her head” [7]. After the earthquake took place, there was hope that Haiti would become the same nation as it was before the events. Many non-profit organizations collected funding from several nations to aid in the assistance of redevelopment in Haiti. As explained in The Guardian newspaper article, Haiti received an unprecedented…

Countless Roma families there were forced to live for more than ten years in vile and filthy United Nations camps built on toxic wasteland that seeped lead, which poisoned their children. In an opinion from a human rights advisory panel that is part of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, the peacekeeping operation known as Unmik, found that the UN had failed to fulfil its obligation to protect the Romas who were forced into the camps after a war broke out in 1998 between…