[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5038]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                BRING BACK OUR GIRLS 1-YEAR ANNIVERSARY

  (Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  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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