The Whistleblower Essay

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The Whistleblower In the film the whistleblower we are presented to a woman named Kathryn Bolkovac. Kathryn is a police officer from Nebraska in the U.S, who agrees to work as a peacekeeper for the U.N Convention in Bosnia. After a short amount of time after she has arrived in Bosnia, she is made the leader of hers own department she discovers a large numbers of cases, which in a lot of young girls has been trafficked as prostitutes. One of these cases is about a Ukrainian girl named Raya. Raya and her friend escape from there traffickers, and are being taken care of bye the U.N Convention. Kathryn sends them to a shelter set up for girls who has been trafficked or victims of sexual slavery. Through Raya’s case Kathryn discovers some scandals about sexual slavery and human trafficking which the U.N are covering up. The U.N has covered it up to protect some security contracts. Now Kathryn are trying to take the cases to a higher level in the U.N Convention, where she finds out that the scandals and the corruption are much bigger than she could imagine. In times where everything and everyone seems to be against her, she finds help in Peter Ward and Madeleine Rees who helps her in her investigation. Now because of Kathryn’s knowledge about the scandals, the U.N decides to fire her. Just before the U.N fired Kathryn, Raya has again been kidnapped. Later they find her dead in the woods. Kathryn is now fully determined to reveal the cases and scandals to the public world. To reveal this scandals Kathryn has to have some evidence, so Peter Ward and Kathryn steals some folders from the U.N administration, witch she brings to the BBC and in an interview Kathryn reveal the scandals to the world. After Kathryn’s reveal of the cases, there has been a much bigger attention on these contractors as for example DynCorp International who has been in charge of the

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