Alicia Keys organizes protest for missing Nigerian girls

NEW YORK, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Alicia Keys held a protest in New York City Tuesday to commemorate the six-month anniversary of the kidnapping of over two hundred Nigerian schoolgirls.

Keys, 33, stood in front of the Nigerian consulate with 30 other women holding signs demanding for the return of the missing girls.

"Today is my son's birthday and it is also making me stand in solidarity with all the mothers of the Chibok girls who have been abducted fo six months and are still missing," the singer said in an Instagram post. "It is just outrageous that that's going on. Some people have even told me they've heard things about 'there's been progress,' but there hasn't been progress because the girls aren't back."

"I think that we get mixed information. We don't know, so we just have to keep being made aware of what's happening," Keys added.

Around 219 Nigerian schoolgirls were abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School in northeastern Nigeria in April by militant Islamist movement Boko Haram. The event ignited a social media campaign dubbed #BringBackOurGirls that looked to pressure the Nigerian government to work harder in its attempt to locate the missing girls.