Bring Back the Girls!

By Isha Sesay, from CNN:

(CNN)How can more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls simply disappear? And how can the Nigerian government and the rest of the world have allowed this to happen?

Exactly 365 days have passed since the girls were snatched from their boarding school dormitories in the dead of night in Chibok, northeastern Nigeria. They are still missing.

For this we should all feel shame: shame that we live in a world where the lives of young girls can be shattered with impunity by fanatical thugs. Shame that when such horrendous acts occur, our collective attention span is so fleeting.

A year ago, I could never have imagined that we would be here today, marking the grim 12-month milestone of these girls going missing.

In the early days of their abduction much of the world stood as one, rallying around the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls.

On the ground in Nigeria as part of CNN’s team covering the story, I was buoyed by this global solidarity.