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Teen Pakistani Activist's Release Of Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls

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Imagine one education taken away? Well, children in Pakistan are living with that. Children are having their basic rights taken away plus being threatened, killed, or kidnapped for fighting or trying to gain back those rights. In the article, “Teen Pakistani activist urges release of kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls,” Malala, a teen Pakistani, mentions that a lot basic human rights are being taken for girls in Pakistan. The country needs to take steps to improve this problem. To begin with,the Nigerian girls were abducted by Boko Harm for trying to get an education. In Boko Haram kidnapping of 200 Nigerian schoolgirls, a year later by Don Melvin, CNN states, “The Government Girls Secondary School had been closed for a month because of the danger posed by Boko Haram …show more content…

According to “Nigerian leader promises Malala missing girls will be home ‘soon’” by Saudi Gazette mentions “ Boko Haram, inspired by the Taliban, say they are fighting to establish an Islamic state in religiously mixed Nigeria. The group, whose name means “Western education is sinful,” has killed thousands and abducted hundreds since launching an uprising in 2009. – Reuters” Boko Haram is being inspired by Taliban encouraging that education is sinful making their action even more dangerous because they are messing and abducting children expecting that the government is going to allow and change the policy for their rebellion. They are hurting children to make a point not noticing that they have not even lived and they are making the children go through things that will haunt them for the rest of their life. That’s not all, “Boko Haram, now considered the main security threat to Nigeria…” according to VOA News in Malala Pledges to Help Free Kidnapped Nigerian Girl, .They are scaring Nigeria , not making them feel safe in their own home as they are a security

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