“We Must End Female Genital Mutilation(FGM) In Out Time”
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| ▲Ms. Waris Dirie Giving a speech to women leaders |
2019 Sunhak Peace Prize Laureate, Waris Dirie, participated in the 4th Global Women’s Peace Network on the topic of “Improving Women’s Human Rights” at Lotte Hotel World on February 8.
About 200 female leaders from home and abroad showed keen interest in WARIS DIRIE, the protagonist who emphasized the abolition of FGM to the international community, confessing to the world the violence of ‘women’s circumcision’ during she was the world’s best fashion model.
“There was a painful time when I begged just to remain alive, but I survived with strong patience, and I felt a call to report every bit of the pain and suffering that I, my family and African women suffered(FGM),”said Waris Dirie.
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| ▲Women leaders falling into Ms. Waris Dirie’s speech |
As for the reason why I became a human rights activist in the supermodel was that; “I thought I would use the life to correct the wrong side of the world since my childhood. I think everyone came to Earth for a reason, so I decided to detonate it when I had enough power to influence the world.”
At the end of the lecture, she told female leaders, “Women and men have an equal value of 50 to 50. Since women are the great ones that create humanity and are precious ones who have enormous responsibilities to raise future generation right, all women should be treated equally as men.”
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| ▲Ms. Waris Dirie giving a speech about the importance of mother’s love and education in the family |
The event was discussed by Sakena Yacoobi, the laureate of 2017 Sunhak Peace Prize and founder of the Afghan Learning Institute for Refugees Education, Yeon-Sook Lee, the 16th National Assembly member and former chairman of the Korean Women’s Association, and Caroline Hanchin, vice president of the UN NGO’s Women’s Status Committee, and director of the UN office of the WFWP engaged in heated discussions on the current situation of human rights.
The Women’s Federation for World Peace, which hosted the event, has been registered as the ‘comprehesive consultative status’ organization of the un Economic Council since 2001, and has been engaged in activities for the realization of the peace world at the individual and individual level through the Global Women’s Peace Network project.
