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Boko Haram

The ordeal isn’t over yet for women who’ve been freed from Boko Haram

By: David Leveille and /Por Alison Bowen | April 9, 2016
From our partner PRI's The World

The Nigerian military has been touting its recent successes against Boko Haram. Officials say many of the thousands of women and girls who’d been held hostage by the Islamist militant group have been freed.

Nigeria

Nigeria’s New Leader on Chibok Girls: Will Do More

By: Maham Javaid and /Por Alison Bowen | April 16, 2015

On the one-year anniversary of the abduction of 276 girls from Chibok, the country’s president-elect promised to respond differently to the kidnappings than the current government. Rallies were also staged globally to mark the anniversary.

Africa

Nigeria’s Lost Girls Part of Long-Term Conflict

By: Corinna Barnard (Editorial Director) | September 5, 2014

Nigeria’s gender-based abductions began in early 2013, a report finds, after the government imprisoned wives of Boko Haram members. Since then, the rate and scale of abductions has increased, with Christian women and girls the main target.

Boko Haram

Nigeria Preps for Freed Girls; Jailed Mom Sues

By: WeNews Staff | May 30, 2014

Nigerians are preparing for the special health care needed schoolgirls when they return. Meanwhile, a jailed Texas woman who was denied medical care while in labor, sued saying the prison’s refusal to help her caused her infant’s death.

Boko Haram

Rescue Effort Intensifies for Nigerian Schoolgirls

By: WeNews Staff | May 13, 2014

The U.S., U.K., Israel and China are reportedly moving in to help a rescue effort being demanded by street demonstrators and hashtag activists around the world. BBC reports Nigeria is ready to negotiate with the extremist Boko Haram.

Boko Haram

Nigerian Rescue Grows; Caning for Being Raped Ok’d

By: WeNews Staff | May 9, 2014

After weeks of foot dragging the world stepped up its response to Nigerian women calling for help in rescuing kidnapped schoolgirls. In Indonesia, a local law in a conservative province means a rape victim faces the possibility of a public caning.

Boko Haram

Outrage Grows at Boko Haram Seizure of Schoolgirls

By: Corinna Barnard (Editorial Director) | May 6, 2014

As delegates arrive in Nigeria for the May 7-9 World Economic Forum on Africa they are likely to run into protesters in the capital city of Abuja. Nigeria’s president has accepted a U.S. offer to help secure the students’ release.

Abortion

U.S. Fights Campus Assault; More Nigerian Girls Gone

By: WeNews Staff | May 2, 2014

The White House announced a two-part approach to campus sexual assault, offering assistance to the victims and making public the colleges under investigation. Also this week, in Nigeria, the number of girls kidnapped continues to rise.

fundamentalism

Sharia’s Rise in Nigeria Incited Stoning Sentences

By: Karima Bennoune | August 24, 2013

Externally imposed economic austerities helped fuel fundamentalism and the application of Muslim laws, says Karima Bennoune in this excerpt from “Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here.” One activist and her colleagues helped women navigate such laws and fight back.

African American

Pollution Risks Worse for Developing World Women

By: Molly M. Ginty | May 18, 2013

Environmental factors are responsible for 23 percent of the overall global disease burden, according to World Health Organization research. Addressing such pollution could save the lives of 6 million women a year.

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