Model Turned Activist Waris Dirie Says World Is Ignoring the Crime of FGM

Model Turned Activist Waris Dirie Says World Is Ignoring the Crime of FGM
Human rights activist and top model Waris Dirie from Somalia addresses a news conference to announce the musical project "Desert Flower" in St. Gallen, Switzerland March 7, 2019. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
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ST. GALLEN, Switzerland—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 supermodel, told Reuters on March 7.

Dirie has used her fame as a Pirelli calendar model and a “Bond girl” playing opposite Timothy Dalton in “The Living Daylights” to campaign against female circumcision.