The United Nations has urged the Nigerian government to rescue all the remaining Chibok girls from Islamist militant’s group Boko Haram.
Through a human rights committee, the UN also asked the government to ensure the girls return to school without stigma.
About 100 of the 270 girls abducted by the islamists from their school in Chibok in northeast Nigeria in April 2014 have been released, with another 60 said to have managed to escape.
Around 100 more girls are however still believed to be in captivity.
Nigeria should “intensify its efforts to rescue all women and girls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents, ensure their rehabilitation and integration into society and provide them and their families with access to psychological and other rehabilitation services,” said the U.N. panel of 23 experts.
Boko Haram has waged a seven-year insurgency in West Africa, killing more than 20,000 people and forcing more than two million to flee their homes.
Although the Chibok girls are the most high-profile case, Boko Haram has kidnapped thousands of adults and children, many of whose cases are neglected, Reuters reports aid groups to say.
According to the panel, the girls who were abducted by Boko Haram from Chibok and Damasak in Borno State in April and November 2014, “continue to be subjected to rape, sexual slavery, forced marriage and impregnation by Boko Haram insurgents.”
The panel however also commended the government for the rescue of some of the girls.
“Of course we commended (Nigeria) for the rescue of 100 of them who are currently, we’re told, kept in Abuja, going through psycho-social counselling,” panel member Hilary Gbedemah told Reuters.
