It does appear that the UN is attemping to deal with one of their scandals:

U.N. peacekeepers have been banned from all sex with the local population in Congo following allegations of widespread abuse of women and girls, the United Nations said on Wednesday.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan disclosed the new "non-fraternization" regulations in a letter to the U.N. Security Council in which he called for 100 extra police and French-speaking investigators to "root out" the abuse and prevent further sexual exploitation.

Over the past year the United Nations probed 150 allegations against some 50 soldiers of sexual exploitation of women and girls, including gang rapes.

Children as young as 12 or 13 were bribed with eggs, milk or a few dollars in exchange for sex, U.N. reports said.

We all pray that these measures work and completely eliminate the 'Flesh for Food' program. The article does mention that these new regulations only apply to the Congo mission (MONUC), not to the 15 other peackeeping missions run by the U.N. It also notes that the rules only apply to soldiers and not to the civilian component of the mission.

Kofi has voiced his support:

"The mission has itself taken a number of firm measures to eliminate this unacceptable behavior," Annan told the council.

"These measures include establishment of a non-fraternization policy, installation of a curfew for military contingents" as well as specialized training and recreation facilities "to alleviate the concentrated stress present in field missions," Annan said in the letter.

Stress, now there is a good scapegoat. I'm so relieved that my job doesn't bring the kind of stress that is only satisfied by starving children. (And no, I don't want a clarification on what services the new 'recreation facilities' provide.)

Of course the money quote from the article is this one:

The United Nations has little recourse against soldiers contributed by individual nations except to send them home and insist their country of origin take action.

It sounds like the U.N. cannot even enforce its own internal regulations, let alone its formal resolutions.