#BringBackOurGirls ….. It’s day 183!!

~~October 14, 2014~~ 

It’s been months since heavily armed attackers stormed the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Nigeria and abducted nearly 300 girls during the night of 14-15 April. The majority of the schoolgirls have not been seen or heard from since and are feared to have been sold into “marriages” and sexual slavery in Nigeria, and potentially, in neighboring Cameroon and Chad.

The militant group, Boko Haram, whose name roughly translates to “Western education is a sin,” reportedly claimed responsibility, stating, “Western education should end. Girls, you should go and get married … I will sell them in the marketplace.” In a further alarming development, early in the week of 4 May, suspected Boko Haram gunmen abducted at least eight more girls – some possibly as young as eight years old – from a village in Borno State, Nigeria.

On 6 May, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights stated that such human rights violations – selling the abducted girls as slaves – could constitute “crimes against humanity.”

However, efforts to rescue the girls have fallen desperately short.

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Please join Equality Now and our Nigerian partners, Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative, Echoes of Women in Africa, Women for Justice and Peace, and Alliances for Africa, in urgently calling on the Government of Nigeria to:

Take immediate action to locate and rescue the girls and provide them with support services upon their return
Prosecute those responsible for the girls’ abduction and exploitation
Take steps to protect schools from attacks so that they are safe places to learn
Immediately institute, in consultation with women’s rights organizations, measures to protect the safety and human rights of women and girls throughout Nigeria, which are further endangered by the volatile political situation in the conflict areas

Also call on the Governments of Cameroon and Chad to swiftly determine whether the girls were transported into their countries and to assist in their rescue.

~~Bring Back Our Girls~~

~~Published on May 1, 2014~~

On April 14, over 230 school girls were kidnapped from their dorm rooms by terrorists in Nigeria. The world has done nothing to rescue them.

This video was made by Louis Adeyemi, a young Nigerian Director (@thelouisking). The voice you hear is of a father of one of our kidnapped girl’s. The images are not of the actual girls that were kidnapped. They are are Nigerian girls and used symbolically.

Join us on twitter/rescueourgirls and facebook.com/bringbackourgirls and let uss march on social media to raise awareness. Write and call your leaders. Now. #bringbackourgirls

“Bring Back Our Girls” Music Video

Published on May 14, 2014

Song Written and Produced by Andrew Lane
Sung and Performed by Stephanie Ferrett
Video Shot & Directed by The Dream Team Directors, Bayou Bennett & Daniel Lir (http://www.dreamteamdirectors.com)
Edited by Mike Dusenka
Andrew Lane for Drew Right Music and Berry/Lane Film/Music
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~~”BRING BACK OUR GIRLS” THEME SONG~~

~Published on May 16, 2014~

Bring Back Our Girls campaign began in Nigeria and gained international attention when over 200 girls were abducted in Chibok village, Borno State, Nigeria by the deadly sect called Boko Haram.

Within a few weeks the Bring Back Our Girls campaign went viral

#InSolidarity #ItIsWhatItIs #DrRex

We ALL are ONE!! 

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More than 60 women, girls escape abductors in Nigeria!!

(AP Photo)

~~July 7, 2014~~ 

This file photo taken from video by Nigeria’s Boko Haram terrorist network on May 12, 2014, shows the missing girls alleged to be abducted on April 14 from the town of Chibok in northeastern Nigeria.

Today is the 84th day since 273 Nigerian school girls were kidnapped. We ask that all of you, from whatever city/country you live, to continue to march and hold rallies. Continue to call your government leaders and tell your friends. We will not be silenced.

Every day the family at the Bring Back Our Girls headquarters in Abuja march and rally by the hundreds.

#bringbackourgirls

www.bringbackourgirls.us

~~THE GIRLS HAVE DONE IT THEMSELVES~~

MAIDUGURI (July 7, 2014 (AFP) – More than 60 women and girls abducted last month by suspected Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria have escaped their captors, sources said Sunday, but more than 200 schoolgirls are still being held by the Islamists.

Local vigilante Abbas Gava said he had “received an alert from my colleagues … that about 63 of the abducted women and girls had made it back home” late Friday.

A high-level security source in the Borno state capital Maiduguri, who requested anonymity because he was not authorised to speak on the matter, confirmed the escape.

#BringBackOurGirls

Gava, a senior official of the local vigilantes in Borno who are working closely with security officials, told journalists the women escaped when their captors went out to fight.

“They took the bold step when their abductors moved out to carry out an operation,” he said.

Clashes took place between the Islamists and the army late Friday after an attack by the insurgents in the town of Damboa, where 53 of them and six soldiers were killed, the army had said. The rebels attacked barracks and a police station while most of the troops were out on patrol in surrounding villages.

Spokesmen for the armed forces or the government could not be reached Sunday for comment on the latest developments in the kidnapping cases.

ZUMA Press.com: Alfa Cheung, Xinhua

Protesters hold a rally on May 13, 2014, to demand the return of about 200 missing school girls abducted by Boko Haram in the state of Lagos, Nigeria.

~~More than 200 still missing~~

Activists of the Bring Back Our Girls movement meanwhile tried to march on the presidential palace in Abuja Sunday to pressure the government over the fate of more than 200 girls kidnapped in Chibok, in Borno, on April 14, but were asked by security forces to turn back.

“It’s 84 days today that the girls have been abducted,” activist Aisha Yesufu told the press. “We have been coming out for 68 days and nobody has really listened to us,” Yesufu told reporters after the march.

That is why the group “decided that we should just take the protest back to the president so that he will know that we are still out there after the 68 days that we have been coming out daily”.

Of the 276 girls seized in April, 57 have escaped while 219 are still missing.

Villagers from the town where Boko Haram abducted the girls appealed to the United Nations on Friday to intervene because of the worsening violence in their region.

The community claimed militants were running amok in their area, seemingly with impunity. A state of emergency imposed in Borno and neighbouring Yobe and Adamawa in May last year forced its fighters out of urban centres.

But that has come at the expense of protecting people in the countryside, where attacks have increased dramatically, almost on a daily basis, analysts say.

Amnesty International claimed in May that military commanders in Borno had advance warning of the Chibok abduction but could not muster enough troops to send.

The insurgents’ kidnap of the schoolgirls in April provoked international outrage and drew unprecedented global attention to the Islamist uprising.

Security experts say the overstretched and under-resourced military is incapable of waging an effective counterinsurgency against the Boko Haram militants, who have killed thousands in their five-year campaign for an independent Islamic state in the north.

© 2014 AFP

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Reason for the kidnapping and immediate inaction of the government

“sabotage, poor governance, lack of leadership and pervasive corruption”

~”Bring Back Our Girls”~

Music Video

~~Published on May 14, 2014~~

Song Written and Produced by Andrew Lane
Sung and Performed by Stephanie Ferrett
Video Shot & Directed by The Dream Team Directors, Bayou Bennett & Daniel Lir (http://www.dreamteamdirectors.com)
Edited by Mike Dusenka
Andrew Lane for Drew Right Music and Berry/Lane Film/Music
#michellebama #jessicabiel #aliciakeys #benstiller #seanpenn #evalongoria #ellendegeneres #bradleycooper #gerardbutler #pdiddy

We ALL are ONE!!