Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Human rights activist and top model Waris Dirie from Somalia delivers a speech as part of the 4th World Meeting of Human Values ...

(Editor's note: contains language that some readers may find offensive in paragraph 7) By Cecile Mantovani ST. GALLEN, Switzerland (Reuters) - Female genital mutilation (FGM) is still occurring ...

Lingerie brand Coco de Mer has partnered with model and activist Waris Dirie, and her organization The Desert Flower Foundation, to put an end to female genital mutilation. Dirie is the new face of ...

Forty-four-year-old supermodel and human rights activist Waris Dirie recounted her fascinating life story in her first novel, "Desert Flower." The journey includes a nomadic youth in Somalia, ...

Waris Dirie's personal story is nothing short of incredible. The supermodel, activist, and former UN Ambassador was just five years old when she underwent female genital mutilation (FGM) in the Somali ...

“Desert Flower” is a weighty biopic that by all rights should have bloomed more fully than it does in the hands of writer-director Sherry Hormann. That said, a lovely performance by Ethiopian ...

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Somali-born model and former James Bond girl Waris Dirie apologized Saturday for her surprise three-day disappearance, which led to a nationwide police search for her. Jean-Marc Meilleur, spokesman ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Supermodel turned campaigner against female genital mutilation Waris Dirie said on Thursday she was optimistic that FGM could be eradicated in her lifetime, ...

ST. GALLEN, Switzerland (Reuters) - Female genital mutilation (FGM) is still occurring because the world is turning a blind eye to a crime against children, Waris Dirie, the Somali nomad turned ...