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Caribbean Joins Fight to #BringBackOurGirls

Categories: Caribbean, Nigeria, Trinidad & Tobago, Citizen Media, Digital Activism, Ethnicity & Race, Human Rights, Law, Media & Journalism, Politics, Protest, Women & Gender, Youth

If our own children were to go missing we would want the world to come to a standstill and help us find them. We…ask that…you consider why so often women’s bodies become the battlefields upon which wars are fought. This is not a problem that involves a small town in Nigeria, this involves all girls everywhere.

Tillah Willah [1] sends a letter to Goodluck Jonathan, asking that he treat “the disappearance of the 234 school girls in Chibok, Borno…with a bit more urgency.”