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Report Exposes Failure to Support Girls Freed From Boko Haram

Girls and young women who escaped Boko Haram captivity in north-east Nigeria faced further suffering, including sometimes in unlawful military detention, and are now receiving inadequate support as they attempt to rebuild their lives, according to a new report by Amnesty International.

The report titled 'Help Us Build Our Lives': Girl Survivors of Boko Haram and military abuses in north-east Nigeria, investigates how girls survived trafficking and crimes against humanity by Boko Haram, including abduction, forced marriage, enslavement, and sexual violence.

The Nigerian military has denied allegations of abuse, claiming that it respects fundamental human rights while conducting its operations and referred to the sources cited by Amnesty International, which were mostly survivors, as ''intrinsically unreliable''.

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Girls endured abduction, sexual slavery and other crimes by Boko Haram

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