Bring Back Our Girls

April 14, 2021 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm EDT

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Bring Back Our Girls

The #BringBackOurGirls Movement raised the alarm 7 years ago about the need for urgent government and citizen intervention to rescue the Chibok Girls, to keep our school children and communities safe, and to prevent criminal and violent elements from having free reign.
Regrettably, our worst fears have come to pass as kidnappings of school children have continued in Nigeria.
Bring Back Our Girls Global is launching a renewed global campaign to bring back the girls “Until they are all free.” Over the next six months, BBOG Abuja, BBOG Lagos, BBOG New York, and other BBOG groups around the world will come together to push for a logical end of seven years of advocacy with the final return of our girls. We will seek international support and call upon international bodies and governments to ensure that the Nigerian government keeps its promise to bring back our girls.

On Zoom

Lend your voice and influence to one of the events on Wednesday, April 14, 2021 to mark the 7th anniversary of the abduction. 112 Chibok girls are still missing and many more children, women and men have been abducted.

In Person

There is a GLOBAL event on April 14th at 11:30am (zoom) followed by a live march from the Church Center of the UN.

777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017 (MAP)

You can do one or both.

click here to register for the global event

Demands from BBOG

We remind President Muhammadu Buhari of his statement at his inauguration in 2015 that “We can not claim to have defeated Boko Haram without rescuing the Chibok girls and all other innocent persons held hostage by insurgents.”  But the actions – or rather, the inaction – of the Federal Government over our daughters, while repeatedly claiming that the terrorists have been defeated while our girls remain in bondage, is a painful reminder that this administration does not value the lives of our precious girls who have been abandoned by the government that is supposed to protect them.
We demand the Nigerian Federal Government takes these seven actions without further delay!      

  1. Bring back our girls WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY!

  2. Provide a full report on the status of all investigations, operations and missions to bring back the remaining 112 Chibok young women, including the release of the General Ibrahim Sabo Report.

  3. Provide psycho-social support for traumatized Chibok and other affected families and immediately reopen a properly resourced and staffed Chibok Desk at the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs to keep parents informed and to provide support to families of abducted children.

  4. Complete and reopen the Government Secondary School, Chibok.  In 2016 the Goodluck Jonahtan administration pledged 500 million naira to rebuild the school with full state of the art facilities. Till date, the school remains closed and incomplete. We demand the completion of the school, its re-opening and a full investigation into the funds released.

  5. Report on the whereabouts of Halima Ali, a captive Chibok girl who was able to recently speak to her father and other family members on the phone in 2021 and who was allegedly in the hands of authorities but has not been heard from again.

  6. Provision of trained security personnel for schools and accountability for the status and progress of the Safe Schools Initiative. We cannot continue to see case after case of children being abducted from their schools. We demand adequate security for all public schools including emergency response training of staff on early warning protocols.

  7. Provide an update on the funding and status of the Missing Persons Register program at the National Human Rights Commission and ways in which the Victim Support Fund has been applied to support victims of the insurgency in the NE including the families of the Chibok girls, the Chibok community, other conflict-affected communities, and the education of children with no access to local schools..

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