UN Should Set Anti-Corruption As Their Goal
Why do I mention about anti-corruption at this moment? It is because from the way that NATO and the UN handle Libya’s problem I can tell that the UN intends to order what a country should do now. To prevent the UN from going to the wrong track I give them some ideas here. If they want to force a leader to resign they can use the reason of anti-corruption. They can make the government leaders of the globe set an anti-poverty goal and for being anti-poverty they have to be anti-corruption as well.
I don’t know what the UN actually did all these years. I do notice that there is a goal, Millennium Development Goals, set up by the UN with the deadline of 2015. It calls on global leaders to stamp out poverty.
According to the estimates, there are 172.37 million people in this world who live below poverty level: 100 million people in Asia, 10 million people in Africa, 30 million people in the Arab world, 2,000,000 people in Latin America and North America and 170,000 people in Oceania.
Anti-poverty is a good goal and it needs the cooperation from all the governments. Right now if leaders ignore the goal the UN can do nothing. Therefore the UN should set up laws against corruption and for ending poverty. Resources in our globe are limited. When someone is rich that means more people became poor. We have no way to stop people who become rich in fair competitions. However, we have reason to be against those being rich through corruption for they have the political power. Today a country that has a higher poverty rate usually has serious corruption in its government. That is why to end poverty the UN should be anti-corruption as well.
What I mean is that our whole world should arrest the corrupt people and freeze their money. We should be against them just like we are against drug dealers, murders and terrorists. It is not acceptable that government leaders use their power to steal from the public and cause poverty. If a government officer (no matter what government he was from) cannot explain how his assets were accumulated the UN should prosecute him and return his assets to his country.
Right now to end poverty the UN relies on donations. It is obvious that collecting funds from donations is not as powerful as anti-corruption. In China, in Russia and many other countries people hate corruption in their government the most. A large amount of Chinese officials have millions of dollars saved in different international banks and the Chinese can do nothing to them. With the support of the UN those Chinese ex-officials who stole money and hide it overseas would have no way to hide it as well as officials from Libya and Egypt.
It is said there are a few ten thousand corrupt Chinese hiding overseas. The Chinese government cannot catch them because just for filing a case with the international police they have to pay four hundred thousand U.S dollars. They don’t know if they can actually catch those criminals after the filing. They don’t know if those people still have money in their accounts when they are caught. If they did get some money back they have to share some of it with the international police. Considering all these reasons the Chinese government did almost nothing to run after those corrupt officials. Those people take away millions of dollars and left a letter to say bye before they fly to the Western world where they have democracy and freedom.
