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I had learnt the advantages of education and I was determined to be the first person to go to university in my village.

— Grace Akallo

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There is hope. There is hope because I too believe that this Council will act and succeed like it has for child soldiers; for those thousands of children out there who still wait.

I have told my own story, but the stories you have not heard are thousands-fold.

I still wait for some of my friends to return, and I hope that everyone here will be committed to bring people like my friends back home.

I am not only here to talk about my own story but on behalf of all the children in armed conflict who have to face and survive the atrocities of war.

Sexual violence is a terrible crime and perpetrators must be punished. It has to stop. I am saying this out of experience.

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