It's been nearly three weeks since more than 200 Nigerian girls were kidnapped at dawn from their school. The government knows who took them, and where they probably are. Yet thus far, the government has barely made any moves to rescue them.
These girls are in grave danger. The Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has admitted to kidnapping them, and the group's leader has threatened to sell the girls into slavery or forced marriage, where they will almost certainly be raped or even killed.
"I will marry off a woman at the age of 12," the leader said on video. "I will marry off a girl at the age of nine."
Meanwhile, the Nigerian government has been criminally slow to take action. Activists who demanded answers about the girls were detained by police, and the Nigerian First Lady even claimed the whole thing had been a conspiracy.
But other nations aren't innocent, either. While the Western media spent weeks puzzling over the whereabouts of a missing plane, the plight of these girls has been wilfully ignored.
These young women have done nothing wrong. Their only "mistake" was trying to go to school to further their education. If you want to take attention then here's the link:
Sign the petition asking the Nigerian, U.S. and other governments to step up efforts to find the girls and return them to their families, before it's too late.
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