The Labour Party's calling on the government to help in the effort to find more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamic terrorists last month in Nigeria.
Human Rights spokeswoman Maryan Street and Women's Affairs spokeswoman Carol Beaumont say the African country's distance from us shouldn't prevent New Zealand from offering any assistance to international efforts to find the girls.
The Labour spokeswomen say they must be found before they are sold into sex slavery or suffer other appalling outcomes.
Ms Street and Ms Beaiumont say they've written to Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully asking his government to offer logistical, financial, operational and active moral support to the search effort.
They say this an opportunity where the government can put its aid money where Mr McCully's mouth is, as New Zealand presses for a seat on the UN Security Council.
