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Bring Back Our Girls 1-Year Anniversary

Floor Speech

Date: April 15, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Minors and Children Criminal Justice

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Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to remind my colleagues that we have not yet succeeded in bringing back the 219 Nigerian girls abducted by Boko Haram on this day last year. For a moment, the plight of those young schoolgirls captured the attention of the world, spurred by millions of tweets and a hashtag that demanded justice, but as is so often the case with faces of color, their disappearance quickly left the headlines.

We can neither forget nor give up on these girls. Their abduction was a violent challenge to peace, to freedom, and to the right of every girl to choose to better herself through education.

Mr. Speaker, I join my colleagues in calling for a renewed effort to bring back those girls and to bring justice to those responsible.

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