The case of the 276 missing girls in Nigeria has gotten more attention than any single case of girls abducted in armed conflict in recent memory. Far more, she notes, than the thousands of girls who are regularly kidnapped or sold into slavery in the dark corners of the world. Why, she instead wonders, are we only now outraged? The answer she arrives at, almost to her own surprise, is numerical. The kidnapping of so many schoolgirls at once has upped the ante, she wrote. Kidnap a few girls at a time in a conflict zone and the world barely blinks. But abduct a large number and the world springs to attention. Read more of Lauren Wolfes comments here: n.pr/1jWnxNr
Posted on: Sun, 18 May 2014 17:15:09 +0000
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