World (Sex For) For Food Program or Mr. Hungry For Sex Meets Ms. Hungry For Food

When certain aid workers and peace keepers hungry for sex spend time in a country where young women and small girls are hungry for food bad things can happen and has happened time and time again. I'm not saying that it is common practice, of course not, buth sexual exploitation by aid workers and peace keepers of poor and defenceless women and girls is not a new phenomenon. Ask any aid worker or peace keeper you know and they will tell you outright or hint at what they have either seen or heard of.

According to BBC News the organisation Save the Children reports that "[y]oung girls in Liberia are still being sexually exploited by aid workers and peacekeepers despite pledges to stamp out such abuse." "Girls as young as eight are being forced to have sex in exchange for food by workers for local and international agencies."

One of the offenders works for the World Food Program(!). I would say that that's more than ironic. I hope that he will be kicked out of the organisation faster than one can spell his name: p-i-e-c-e-o-f-s-h-i-t.

Rumours say that 40% of the female population in Liberia has been raped or sexually abused. When it's an organised part of war it's beyond horrible, when it's a small(?) part of foreign aid and peace keeping missions than it's... so utterly embarrasing, so utterly destructive. At the moment I can't think of anything more cowardly than demanding sex for food.

And when it comes to sex abuses against starving children, as reported by the BBC News, then it should merely be "just" a matter of laying down the law. But, then again. The article suggests that there is a whole lot more to it. It shouldn't be...