--- title: Malala Yousafzai Condemns Boko Haram, Urges Remembrance of Chibok Girls description: It's been 300 days since they were abducted canonical: https://time.com/3699864/malala-yousafzai-boko-haram-chibok/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-08T00:01:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:40:47.704Z article:section: World og:title: Malala Urges the World to Remember Schoolgirls Kidnapped by Boko Haram og:description: It's been 300 days since they were abducted og:url: https://time.com/3699864/malala-yousafzai-boko-haram-chibok/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4fafd9cd928a1bca/69877e1f428a9e5e8ccc7051/488922969.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: London Protest Against The Kidnapping Of More Than 200 Nigerian Girls og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Malala Urges the World to Remember Schoolgirls Kidnapped by Boko Haram twitter:description: It's been 300 days since they were abducted twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4fafd9cd928a1bca/69877e1f428a9e5e8ccc7051/488922969.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Malala Urges the World to Remember Nigerian Schoolgirls > Sponsored content. 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The teen who survived an attack from the Taliban and has fought relentlessly for women’s right to education received the Nobel Peace Prize along with India’s Kailash Satyarthi._  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Feb 8, 2015 12:01 AM UTC  Protesters calling for the release of a group of abducted Nigerian schoolgirls gather outside Nigeria House on May 9, 2014 in London, England. ( Dan Kitwood--Getty Images) Protesters calling for the release of a group of abducted Nigerian schoolgirls gather outside Nigeria House on May 9, 2014 in London, England. ( Dan Kitwood--Getty Images)Dan Kitwood—Getty Images  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Feb 8, 2015 12:01 AM UTC Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai called on the world Sunday to remember the Nigerian schoolgirls who were abducted by the militant group Boko Haram last year and remain missing 300 days later. “Nigerian leaders and the international community can and must do much more to resolve this crisis and change their weak response to date,” Malala said in a statement marking 300 days since the Chibok schoolgirls were captured. “If these girls were the children of politically or financially powerful parents, much more would be done to free them. But they come from an impoverished area of northeast Nigeria and sadly little has changed since they were kidnapped.” “These young women risked everything to get an education that most of us take for granted,” she continued. “I will not forget my sisters.” Islamist extremist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 schoolgirls from a school in northeast Nigeria last April, triggering global outrage expressed through the #BringBackOurGirls campaign. Although [a few girls](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/03/chibok-girls-escaped-boko-haram-new-fear-return-school) managed to escape during the kidnapping, the vast majority of the schoolgirls remain missing. Women who have escaped [Boko Haram tell of the brutalities](http://time.com/3540263/girls-boko-haram-escape/) they experienced at the hands of the militants, including forced marriage and being sold into sex slavery. ### See Malala's Life In Photos  Malala Yousafzai raises her hands with some of the escaped kidnapped school girls of government secondary school Chibok during a news conference in Abuja, Nigeria on July 14, 2014. Olamikan Gbemiga—AP  Malala Yousafzai walks alongside Syrian refugee Mazoon Rakan after attending a press conference at the Zaatari refugee camp near the Jordanian border with Syria on Feb. 18, 2014. AFP/Getty Images  Malala Yousafzai attends an award ceremony to receive her 2013 Sakharov Prize at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France on Nov. 20, 2013. Vincent Kessler—Reuters  Malala Yousafzai poses for pictures before an event launching her memoir "I Am Malala" at the Southbank Centre in London on Oct. 20, 2013. Olivia Harris—Reuters/Corbis  Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip meet Malala Yousafzai during a Reception for Youth, Education and the Commonwealth at Buckingham Palace in London on Oct. 18, 2013. Yui Mok—Getty Images  The Obama family meets with Malala Yousafzai in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Oct. 11, 2013. The White House/Getty Images  Malala Yousafzai raises a trophy after being honored with the International Children's Peace Prize in the Netherlands, on Sept. 6, 2013. AFP/Getty Images  Malala Yousafzai was on the cover of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People list in 2013. TIME  Pakistani student Malala Yousafzai speaks before the United Nations Youth Assembly in New york on July 12, 2013. Stan Honda—AFP/Getty Images  Malala Yousafzai sits up in her hospital bed with her father and her two younger brothers, on Oct. 26, 2012, in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The 15 year-old Malala was being treated after she was shot by the Taliban in Pakistan two weeks earlier. Getty Images  Malala Yousafzai lives in the Swat Valley with her family seen here on March 26, 2009 in Peshawar, Pakistan. Veronique de Viguerie—Getty Images Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau released a video last May taking responsibility for the abduction and saying that he would “sell them on the market.” The 300-day anniversary coincides with the upcoming Nigerian presidential elections, which are i[ncreasingly threatened](http://time.com/3682169/boko-haram-attacks-maiduguri-in-northeastern-nigeria/) by the Boko Haram insurgency. This week, the government announced they would delay the elections because of instability in the northeast part of the country, [largely controlled](http://time.com/3695602/delay-nigeria-elections/) by Boko Haram. “Politicians now running for office for next week’s elections should not only demonstrate their empathy but finally take some responsibility for this tragedy,” Malala said. “The leaders of Nigeria should commit to work together and make the case of the Chibok girls a priority in their first 100 days in office, as well as the education of every Nigerian child.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3699864/malala-yousafzai-boko-haram-chibok/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3699864/malala-yousafzai-boko-haram-chibok/"},"headline":"Malala Urges the World to Remember Nigerian Schoolgirls","datePublished":"2015-02-08T00:01:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:40:47.704Z","description":"It's been 300 days since they were abducted","url":"https://time.com/3699864/malala-yousafzai-boko-haram-chibok/","keywords":["Nigeria","Nobel Peace Prize","kidnapping","Boko Haram","Malala Yousafzai","chibok","goodluck jonathan","Malala"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4fafd9cd928a1bca/69877e1f428a9e5e8ccc7051/488922969.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4fafd9cd928a1bca/69877e1f428a9e5e8ccc7051/488922969.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"London Protest Against The Kidnapping Of More Than 200 Nigerian Girls","caption":"London Protest Against The Kidnapping Of More Than 200 Nigerian Girls","creditText":"Dan Kitwood—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/nigeria/","name":"Nigeria"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3699864/malala-yousafzai-boko-haram-chibok/","name":"Malala Urges the World to Remember Nigerian Schoolgirls"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Malala Yousafzai Wins Nobel Peace Prize","description":"The teen who survived an attack from the Taliban and has fought relentlessly for women’s right to education received the Nobel Peace Prize along with India’s Kailash Satyarthi.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/lDLaRX04/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-10-10T12:43:14.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/lDLaRX04.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3699864/malala-yousafzai-boko-haram-chibok/","duration":"PT1M35S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3699864/malala-yousafzai-boko-haram-chibok/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```