Report Documents Human Rights Abuses Against Nigerian Women and Girls Abducted by Islamist Insurgency

boko-haram-NEWS-smThis week the group Human Rights Watch issued a new report documenting kidnappings, forced marriages, and sexual abuse of girls and young women in Nigeria by the Islamist group Boko Haram. The report says more than 500 women have been abducted there in recent years, including the 270 schoolgirls kidnapped in April.

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