#bringbackourgirls

The #bringbackourgirls campaign was possibly the largest #campain of 2014.  It was as a campaign intended to bring international attention to 276 Nigerian school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in April 2014. I remember participating and following avidly for a few months, but then some girls were found and the rest well it just kind of fell off my radar sadly. As the Huffington post reported in it's 2014 article I posted last time, as of the end of 2014 there were still 218 girls in captivity. Well unfortunately not much has changed a few additional women have escaped captivity, bu most remained as of April 2017.

 After three years it did not look good: https://www.thedailybeast.com/three-years-later-a-look-at-the-bringbackourgirls-catch-22

http://www.newsweek.com/chibok-girls-boko-haram-583584

It seems the fight continues, and begs the question, what if anything did the hashtag campaign accomplish? It seems int this case that international attention and awareness did not translate into results. Though it did bring attentions to longstanding issues with Boko Haram and Islamic extremism in Northern Nigeria.

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