[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5039]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               BOKO HARAM

  (Ms. CLARKE of New York asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. CLARKE of New York. Mr. Speaker, I stand today with my colleagues 
to focus the attention of the world on the 276 young women who were 
kidnapped by Boko Haram--219 whose whereabouts remain unknown--in 
Chibok, Nigeria, just a year ago in April.
  This kidnapping, this act of terrorism, was an attack on the basic 
human rights of women and girls to participate in the civil society, in 
this instance by attending school to develop their individual talents 
and God-given potential.
  These young women were violently abducted for the explicit purpose of 
preventing their full participation in the civil society of Nigeria.
  Now, a year after their kidnapping, these young women are still 
missing, and Boko Haram continues to terrorize the people of west 
Africa, forcing millions of people to flee their home and undermining 
the foundations of democracy.
  We must continue in our efforts to find these girls and bring their 
abductors to justice. The destabilization of Nigeria, Cameroon, and 
Chad has implications for the entire continent of Africa and, indeed, 
the world.
  We have called on the community of nations to bring back our girls.

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