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UN rights chief urges concerted action to tackle Boko Haram's 'extensive and far-reaching' abuses

UN rights chief urges concerted action to tackle Boko Haram's 'extensive and far-reaching' abuses

Jul 02, 2015, at 08:23 pm

New York, July 2 (IBNS) Describing a pattern of vicious and indiscriminate attacks by Boko Haram in north-east Nigeria that stretched back years, the United Nations human rights chief on Wednesdayurged the international community to help the subregion begin to repair the damage, and specifically appealed to Nigerian authorities to ease abortion restrictions for women and girls who had been sexually enslaved, raped and forced into so-called "marriages” by Boko Haram fighters.