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School Girl Jumps Out Of Moving Car To Escape Kidnappers In Odisha: Cops
In a daring act a 15-year-old girl student jumped out of a moving car at Pattamundai in Odisha's Kendrapara district and foiled a kidnap bid after she was abducted by three people on Thursday, police said.
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2 Students Arrested For Kidnapping, Raping 14-Year-Old Girl In Gurugram
A 20-year-old student and a 17-year-old boy have been nabbed for allegedly abducting a class 8 girl from her school during a sports programme in the Sohna area and raping her, police said on Monday.
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12-Year-Old Delhi Girl Rescued Within 24 Hours Of Kidnapping From School
A twelve-year-old girl, who was abducted from her school in the Anand Vihar area of Delhi, was found by the police within 24 hours of the incident from Chandigarh, police said on Thursday.
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Jharkhand 12-Year-Old Girl Kidnapped, Raped On Way Home From School: Cops
A 12-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and raped by two unidentified men in Jharkhand's Dumka district before being dumped in neighbouring Godda, police said on Friday.
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Nigeria Has 18.5 Million Children Out Of School, 60% Girls: UNICEF
More than 18.5 million children in Nigeria have no access to education, with girls accounting for more than half the number, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has said.
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14-Year-Old Girl, Who Went Missing 2 Days Ago, Found Dead In Hyderabad
A 14-year-old student of a government school, who went missing from Hyderabad's Meerpet two days ago, was found dead near a church in the area. The girl had left her home on Saturday morning for a walk but never returned, her parents told police. Her body was found this morning. The police are investigating whether she was abducted and killed.
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Foreign Media On Mandsaur Rape Survivor, Age 7
A week ago, a 7-year-old girl was abducted outside her school, raped, then left with her throat slit open in Madhya Pradesh. Now, thousands of people, including several of the country's political leaders, are calling for her perpetrators to receive the death penalty.
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Sikh Cabbie Saves 13-Year-Old Girl From Paedophile In UK
A Sikh taxi driver has been hailed as a hero for saving a 13-year-old school girl in the UK from a planned abduction by a paedophile armed with knives, tape and sleeping pills, a media report said.
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Boko Haram Releases 21 Girls To Nigerian Government
Twenty-one of the more than 200 girls kidnapped over two years ago in a raid on their school in Chibok town by Boko Haram militants have been released, the BBC reported on Thursday citing a government official.
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16-Year-Old Allegedly Gangraped by 4 Classmates in Gurgaon
A 16-year-old schoolgirl was allegedly abducted from Gurgaon and gang-raped by four classmates last week, police said today. The girl and the accused were students of a school in Manesar.
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10 Year Rigorous Imprisonment for 4 Men in Gangrape Case
Four men were sentenced to ten years rigorous imprisonment for gang-raping a minor school girl after abducting her, by a court in Lakhnadoun town of this district.
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4 Sentenced to Death for 2007 Rape and Murder of Minor in Jammu and Kashmir
Four men have been given the death sentence for the abduction, gang-rape and brutal murder of a 13-year-old school girl in the Langate are of north Kashmir eight years ago.
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At Least 2,000 Women and Girls Abducted by Boko Haram Since 2014: Amnesty
At least 2,000 women and girls have been abducted by Nigerian jihadi group Boko Haram since the start of 2014, Amnesty International denounced in an article published on Tuesday.
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Girls Face Rising Violence in Fight for Education: United Nations
High-profile attacks such as the abduction 300 schoolgirls by Boko Haram in Nigeria and the shooting of Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan are a fraction of what is suffered by girls trying to get an education, the UN human rights office said today.
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Uganda's Prayers for Missing Nigerian Girls
When Jane Kade saw a story on the news eight months ago about schoolgirls kidnapped by armed men from a boarding school on the other side of Africa, their plight resonated with her deeply.
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School Girl Jumps Out Of Moving Car To Escape Kidnappers In Odisha: Cops
In a daring act a 15-year-old girl student jumped out of a moving car at Pattamundai in Odisha's Kendrapara district and foiled a kidnap bid after she was abducted by three people on Thursday, police said.
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2 Students Arrested For Kidnapping, Raping 14-Year-Old Girl In Gurugram
A 20-year-old student and a 17-year-old boy have been nabbed for allegedly abducting a class 8 girl from her school during a sports programme in the Sohna area and raping her, police said on Monday.
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12-Year-Old Delhi Girl Rescued Within 24 Hours Of Kidnapping From School
A twelve-year-old girl, who was abducted from her school in the Anand Vihar area of Delhi, was found by the police within 24 hours of the incident from Chandigarh, police said on Thursday.
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Jharkhand 12-Year-Old Girl Kidnapped, Raped On Way Home From School: Cops
A 12-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and raped by two unidentified men in Jharkhand's Dumka district before being dumped in neighbouring Godda, police said on Friday.
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Nigeria Has 18.5 Million Children Out Of School, 60% Girls: UNICEF
More than 18.5 million children in Nigeria have no access to education, with girls accounting for more than half the number, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has said.
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14-Year-Old Girl, Who Went Missing 2 Days Ago, Found Dead In Hyderabad
A 14-year-old student of a government school, who went missing from Hyderabad's Meerpet two days ago, was found dead near a church in the area. The girl had left her home on Saturday morning for a walk but never returned, her parents told police. Her body was found this morning. The police are investigating whether she was abducted and killed.
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Foreign Media On Mandsaur Rape Survivor, Age 7
A week ago, a 7-year-old girl was abducted outside her school, raped, then left with her throat slit open in Madhya Pradesh. Now, thousands of people, including several of the country's political leaders, are calling for her perpetrators to receive the death penalty.
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Sikh Cabbie Saves 13-Year-Old Girl From Paedophile In UK
A Sikh taxi driver has been hailed as a hero for saving a 13-year-old school girl in the UK from a planned abduction by a paedophile armed with knives, tape and sleeping pills, a media report said.
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Boko Haram Releases 21 Girls To Nigerian Government
Twenty-one of the more than 200 girls kidnapped over two years ago in a raid on their school in Chibok town by Boko Haram militants have been released, the BBC reported on Thursday citing a government official.
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16-Year-Old Allegedly Gangraped by 4 Classmates in Gurgaon
A 16-year-old schoolgirl was allegedly abducted from Gurgaon and gang-raped by four classmates last week, police said today. The girl and the accused were students of a school in Manesar.
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10 Year Rigorous Imprisonment for 4 Men in Gangrape Case
Four men were sentenced to ten years rigorous imprisonment for gang-raping a minor school girl after abducting her, by a court in Lakhnadoun town of this district.
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4 Sentenced to Death for 2007 Rape and Murder of Minor in Jammu and Kashmir
Four men have been given the death sentence for the abduction, gang-rape and brutal murder of a 13-year-old school girl in the Langate are of north Kashmir eight years ago.
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At Least 2,000 Women and Girls Abducted by Boko Haram Since 2014: Amnesty
At least 2,000 women and girls have been abducted by Nigerian jihadi group Boko Haram since the start of 2014, Amnesty International denounced in an article published on Tuesday.
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Girls Face Rising Violence in Fight for Education: United Nations
High-profile attacks such as the abduction 300 schoolgirls by Boko Haram in Nigeria and the shooting of Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan are a fraction of what is suffered by girls trying to get an education, the UN human rights office said today.
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Uganda's Prayers for Missing Nigerian Girls
When Jane Kade saw a story on the news eight months ago about schoolgirls kidnapped by armed men from a boarding school on the other side of Africa, their plight resonated with her deeply.
