In 2015, Masui Segun was conducting research for a report on attacks on teachers and students in camps for internally displaced people in northeast Nigeria. She's the senior researcher for Nigeria for Human Rights Watch, an international nongovernmental group that publishes about 100 reports a year on human rights issues.
The people she met wanted her to look into a different topic.
"People walked up to us and asked why we were not researching the violence against women in the camps," she told Goats and Soda.
Segun and her team heard so many stories that they decided to investigate further, spending two weeks in late July interviewing women and girls from seven of the 13 government-run Internal Displacement Persons camps in Maiduguri, capital of Borno State, where the Boko Haram insurgency has led to massive population displacements.
"In each of the seven camps we visited, we heard reports of these abuses, Segun said.
[For more of this story, written by Diane Cole, go to http://www.npr.org/sections/go...risk-of-sexual-abuse]
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