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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.