Which hashtag was used to support the Nigerian kidnapped schoolgirls in 2014?

The hashtag used to support the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped in 2014 was #BringBackOurGirls.

In April 2014, Boko Haram abducted more than 200 girls from a secondary school in Chibok, in northeastern Nigeria. The kidnapping quickly became an international news story, and #BringBackOurGirls helped keep attention focused on the missing students and pressure authorities to act.

The hashtag was first used by Nigerian lawyer Ibrahim Abdullahi and then spread widely on social media. It gained especially large international visibility after Michelle Obama appeared in a photograph holding a handwritten “Bring Back Our Girls” sign. The campaign became a prominent example of hashtag activism: using a short, memorable phrase to organize attention around a political or humanitarian cause.

A common mix-up is confusing the hashtag with a general anti-Boko Haram slogan. Its specific purpose was to call for the return of the Chibok schoolgirls, although the phrase was later used in wider discussions about other kidnapped Nigerian children and victims of terrorism.