The statement "the more serious the situation and by extension the greater the need, the less useful the United Nations is and the more irrelevant international law becomes", was once observed by a critic while talking about the United Nations. This essay will examine this issue by drawing on the book Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures, as well as examining some of Rafael Lempkin's efforts. The quote above, in my opinion, states that the more desperate the situation becomes, the less good the United Nations will be able to do to resolve the situation. The worse things are, the more likely it is that international law will be broken, and will be allowed to be broken by the United Nations, the ones that are supposed to enforce it. Let's start with Condition bravo in the book, which takes place in Cambodia, 1993. The authors state how the Bulgarian peacekeepers sent to Cambodia were nothing more than "detainees and patients of psychiatric wards, even though they arrived in military uniform to become Blue Helmets of the United Nations". Kenneth Cain describes how the "Blue Helmets" were hated by everyone in Cambodia and described them as "A battalion of criminally insane people coming to a lawless land. They're as drunk as sailors, raping vulnerable Cambodian women and crashing their Land Cruisers. United Nations with considerable frequency." Overall, the Cambodian elections are a success, the work is easy and peaceful, the elections are successful, and the trio move on to other peacekeeping assignments, where their fortunes change dramatically. UN workers did their job and succeeded in Cambodia without many cases of corruption. Heidi and Ken go to Somalia and are besieged, Andrew goes to Haiti where he is a helpless and frustrated observer in the face of Haitian warlords. When Heidi and Ken lose a colleague in Mogadishu, their disenchantment with the United Nations grows. There is evidence of UN corruption here. In Somalia, Cain is caught in a Somali attack during a UN ceremony celebrating the UN-sponsored reopening of the Somali courts. Unfortunately, during the attack, many judges are killed or driven out, and Cain learns that his boss had pushed for the provocative reopening of the courts so he could collect 15% of the judges' salaries for himself. Stories like these are present in the authors' UN experiences. Cain also reports that while in Rwanda, the administrative head of the U.