Nigeria: UN Decries Boko Haram's Sexual Abuse of Captives

Ms Zainab Bangura, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, on Wednesday decried reported rape and forced marriages of female captives of Boko Haram.

Bangura lamented in a statement signed by her Office's Advocacy and Women's Rights Specialist, Ms Letitia Anderson, that one year after the Chibok Girls abduction many were still in captivity.

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