Sentences with phrase «schoolgirls kidnapped»

To the left, the second altar bears scattered hijabs commemorating the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria, and the third altar displays a pile of aprons & uniforms worn by girls at Europe and America's infamous labour institutions for «disturbed» and «sinful» young women, the Magdalene Laundries.

When the movie begins, Nakia is embedded with a group of women in Nigeria who have been kidnapped by a militant group, an unmistakable stand - in for the schoolgirls kidnapped by the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram.

Boko Haram insurgents have since released 104 of the schoolgirls kidnapped from their school in Dapchi, Yobe state, keeping Leah behind for refusing to denounce her faith.

The Cameroonian Information Minister, Issa Bakari, has clarified that the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by the deadly Boko Haram sect are not among the 900 hostages recently...

Fears have been raised that the schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants earlier this year are now being used as suicide bombers.

Nigerian Army spokesman Sani Usman told CNN, «We stumbled on the girls and may find more,» but added they are «not the Chibok girls,» referring to the group of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped last spring that sparked the #BringBackOurGirls campaign.

Not exact matches

The plight of the 218 kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls remains uncertain after a recent split in the world's deadliest terrorist group.

Nigerian terror group Boko Haram has released all but one of the Dapchi schoolgirls who were kidnapped last month.

At least 80 schoolgirls who were kidnapped in Nigeria in 2014 were been freed in exchange for the release of Boko Haram suspects on Saturday.

At least 80 schoolgirls who were kidnapped in Nigeria in 2014 were been freed in exchange for the release... More

On today's Fox News Sunday, George Will and Brit Hume gave the #BringBackOurGirls awareness - raising campaign for the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls what they intended to be a serious intellectual beat - down: «Do you think that this is significant and helpful and can make...

On today's Fox News Sunday, George Will and Brit Hume gave the #BringBackOurGirls awareness - raising campaign for the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls what they intended to be a serious intellectual beat - down:

Osai said: «The release of 82 of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls by the armed group Boko Haram is a big relief.

He also added that the President will get the required 25 percent votes even in Chibok, the Borno community where Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls on April 14.

The administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan had lived in denial up till three weeks after the news of the abduction broke, saying no schoolgirl was kidnapped in Chibok.

Following the release of the kidnapped Dapchi schoolgirls by Boko Haram terrorists, a father of one of the abducted girls, Sheribu Nata, has disclosed that...

But reacting, the senator representing Osun - West senatorial district, Isiaka Adeleke, said Fayose should put himself in the shoes of the schoolgirls» parents, adding that even former President Jonathan later admitted that the schoolgirls were kidnapped.

The group has waged an eight - year war to create an Islamic state in northeast Nigeria, and provoked international outrage by kidnapping more than 200 schoolgirls known as the Chibok Girls in April 2014.

Residents blamed Boko Haram, the Islamic extremist group that kidnapped nearly 300 Chibok schoolgirls in April 2014.

The released girls were among the over 200 schoolgirls, who were kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists from the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, on April 14, 2014.

(CNN)- The former chairman of the House Homeland Security committee is urging the United States and others not to negotiate with Boko Haram, the terrorist group in Nigeria that has kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls.

The UN Security Council has announced that it has blacklisted the Islamist militant group Boko Haram after they kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria.

Not only has the terrorist group been credited with the death of over 100,000 people, it also carried out an audacious kidnap of about 272 schoolgirls, many of whom have yet to regain freedom.

The group announced its presence to the world in 2011 by bombing the U.N. headquarters in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, and then gained further international notoriety in April 2014 when it kidnapped more than 250 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno.

This article originally appeared in the Boston Globe.News of attacks by Boko Haram were a daily occurrence when Lola Irele was working in her native Nigeria last year, and she was outraged when word spread here that the group had kidnapped more than 300 schoolgirls in April.

Someday by Carnegie Medal Award nominated author Corinna Turner is a powerful novel based on a horrifying real event: the kidnapping of 272 Nigerian schoolgirls on April 14th, 2014.

The title story presents a stirring imagining of the aftermath of the kidnapping of Nigerian schoolgirls by Boko Haram that leaves us pondering what is lost when we survive the unsurvivable.

In Japan, however, «Sukeban Deka II» was the television series «sequel» to «Sukeban Deka,» a story about a delinquent schoolgirl who's kidnapped and forced by the government to do their bidding in various high schools around Japan.

Cronin gathered hundreds of articles of women's and girls» clothing from around the world to represent three specific tragedies: brightly - colored saris symbolize two Indian girls who were kidnapped, gang - raped, and lynched from a tree at the edge of their village; hijabs signify 276 Nigerian Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram in 2014 — over 200 of whom still remain missing; and gray and white aprons & uniforms symbolize those worn by «fallen women,» in forced labor at the Magdalene Asylums and Laundries in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the U.S.

Cronin gathered hundreds of articles of women's and girls» clothing from around the world to represent three specific tragedies: brightly - colored saris symbolize two Indian girls who were kidnapped, gang - raped, and lynched from a tree at the edge of their village; hijabs signify 276 Nigerian Chibok schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram in 2014 — over 200 of whom still remain missing; and gray and white aprons & uniforms symbolize those worn by «fallen women,» in forced labor at the Magdalene Asylums and Laundries in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the U.S. Moving from the marble alters and sacred architecture of Venice's sixteenth - century Chiesa di San Gallo to the secular gallery context of FLAG, Cronin will present the same three fabric sculptures, here piled on top of their shipping crates to now address human trafficking as well as human rights issues.

Some factions will fight this, as is the case in Nigeria, where the Boko Haram extremists, whose very name (the translation is «Western education is a sin») stands against a basic right, are threatening to sell hundreds of kidnapped schoolgirls into slavery.