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Those who forced children and their families from their homes, used children as child soldiers and refused humanitarian access to children enjoyed continued impunity, said United Nations Executive Director Carol Bellamy in a speech to the 53rd Session of the Executive Committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. “In refugee and IDP camps all over the world, girls and boys are spending their most developmentally crucial years in conditions of almost unimaginable misery and squalor,” she said.