Boko Haram:214 rescued girls pregnant – UNFPA

 

Girls and women kidnapped by terrorist group Boko Haram were subjected to sexual abuse for a long time; it is proven by the fact that 214 of the recently released 234 girls are pregnant. Moreover, many of them are underage.

 

Since the beginning of the last year Boko Haram around 2000 girls and women in Nigeria were kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria. Womennet.am refered to international movement launched in the spring of 2014. More than one million people joined this initiative to demand from Nigeria authorities and internatkional structures to liberate girls as soon as possible.

 

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