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Waris Dirie (Somali: Waris Diiriye) (born 21 October 1965) is a Somali model, author, actress and human rights activist in the fight against female genital mutilation . From 1997 to 2003, she was a UN special ambassador against FGM.
May 2, 2024 · Waris Dirie, Somalian fashion model, author, and women’s rights activist known for her efforts to eliminate female genital mutilation (FGM). She recounted her experience with FGM, as well as her dramatic transformation from nomad to fashion model, in her autobiography Desert Flower.
In the fascinating resumption of her autobiography “Desert Flower”, Waris Dirie conveys a compelling and touching picture of life in Somalia: on the one hand, a great variety of traditions but on the other hand, the archaic distribution of roles, which particularly puts the country´s women in chains.
Feb 9, 2023 · Waris Dirie: My mother said ‘forgive me’ for my FGM. Decades after she escaped her home country of Somalia, model and activist Waris Dirie returned there in the 1990s to convince her mother to...
Apr 3, 2019 · Waris Dirie was born in Somalia in 1965, was subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) at age five, and fled the country at 13 to escape an arranged marriage. FGM is the non-medical practice that intentionally removes female genital organs, often with serious consequences for health, like issues with sex, urination, menstruation, pregnancy ...
Waris Dirie. 1965 (?)–. Women's rights activist, model. Though she was among the top models in the world for some years, model Waris Dirie has disfigured feet, covered with scars she acquired during a nine-day flight across the desert after she ran away from her nomadic family in Somalia to escape a forced marriage.
Feb 8, 2023 · Decades after she escaped her home country of Somalia, model and activist Waris Dirie returned there in the 1990s to convince her mother to actively stop other relatives undergoing female genital...
Waris Dirie is also known as “The Desert Flower”. The former Somali top model fights against Female Genital Mutilation with her own charity foundation. Waris will be one of the keynote speakers at The League of Leading Ladies Conference 2023.
Jun 30, 2022 · Waris Dirie is a survivor of female genital mutilation, or FGM. For the past 25 years, she has fought to end FGM throughout Africa and Asia. What is Waris doing to achieve her goal of...
Jun 6, 2009 · To escape an arranged marriage to a sixty-year-old man, Waris Dirie ran away from her oppressive life in the African desert when she was barely in her teens, illiterate and impoverished, with...
