A new report requested by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on sexual exploitation occurring in peacekeeping missions recommends the UN standardize rules so that all personnel are held equally accountable and that laws in troop-contributor countries and individual responsibility for victims, including "peacekeeper babies," be strengthened. The report was prepared by Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein, the Permanent Representative of Jordan and himself a former civilian peacekeeper, after extensive consultations with officials from the UN Secretariat and from troop-and police-contributing countries, as well as a visit last year to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where many of the allegations have surfaced.