14 October 2014 Last updated at 17:59
Malala Yousafzai has called on Nigeria
The Nobel Peace Prize winner said
campaigners needed to raise their voices "louder than ever" to demand
the freedom of the girls.
The Boko Haram group sparked global outrage
when it seized the girls.
Foreign governments including the US and China ,
have sent experts to Nigeria
Boko Haram fighters abducted the girls during a raid on their boarding school in Chibok
town in north-eastern Nigeria
Malala said in a statement that
the schoolgirls needed to be reunited with their families and receive a quality and safe
education.
"I urge the Nigerian government and
the international community to redouble their efforts to bring a quick and
peaceful conclusion to this crisis," Malala said.
Critics accuse government of not doing
enough to secure the release of the girls - a charge ministers deny.
A mother's pain
"We are in a desperate situation. Sometimes, when we go
to the farm and remember what has happened we just start crying and can't
work," Hannatu Dauda told the BBC.
She says she last heard from her abducted
daughter, Saratu, when Boko Haram raided her boarding school in Chibok in
April.
"When she called, we were all lying in
the compound. She
said: 'Some people have come to take us and they have rounded us up. Please
pray for us'. And then her father and the rest of us kept praying," Mrs
Dauda recalls.
"After some minutes she called again
to say: 'Daddy they have taken all of us from school. We have been loaded onto
a truck and we don't know where they are taking us to. Please tell my mummy to
forgive me until we meet again'," she adds.
Activists earlier tried to march to the
official residence of President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja
But Maureen Kabrik, an organiser of the
Bring Back Our Girls campaign in Nigeria
"We're here. We're a civil group.
We're not a disobedient
group," she told BBC Focus on Africa .
"Yet, they stopped us with heavy
arms."
The police have not commented on why they
blocked the march.
Malala, a 17-year-old Pakistani campaigner
for girls' education, met Mr Jonathan in July to discuss the abductions.
She won the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this
month, making her the youngest ever recipient of the award.
Structure of the Lead：
WHO- Malala Yousafzai
WHAT- called on Nigeria
WHY- the schoolgirls needed to be reunited
with their families and receive a quality and safe education.
WHERE- Nigeria
HOW- I urge the Nigerian government and the
international community to redouble their efforts to bring a quick and peaceful
conclusion to this crisis
Keywords：
１．abduct：誘拐／綁架
２．boarding school：供寄宿的學校
３．reunite：再結合／重聚
４．desperate：鋌而走險的／危急的
５．compound：熔爐
６．disobedient：不服從的／違抗命令的
In my opinion, Malala was such a brave girl to fight for her right to study. I thought that everyone should have the equal treatment, not to speak of education.
回覆刪除In my opinion, women have the rights to receive education. No one can stop them from going to school. I hope governments around the world can take Malala's demand seriously and help those girls who cannot receive education.
回覆刪除Not only men but also women can accept education, the government shouldn't deprive of women's rights of education. I hope the government can take the brave girl's action into consideration and make the best decision.
回覆刪除Malala is a brave girl that she fought for women's education despite her young age. This teaches me that age is not an obstacle, if we are willing to change something, I can make every effort to complete it.
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