Desert Flower (2009) English Subtitles

02:00:12 · but now that I am grown
02:00:15 · I am proud to be who I am
02:00:22 · but for the sake of all of us
02:00:24 · let us try and change what that means
02:00:29 · to be a woman
02:00:48 · 130 million girls and women worldwide suffer from the impact of circumcision. Aso in Europe and the USA immigrants continue this cruel tradition.
02:00:57 · Waris Dirie was the first woman to bring the practice of female genitital mutilation to world public attention.
02:01:07 · In 1977 she was appointed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to be the ambassador in the fight against this terrible ritual.
02:01:16 · Since then female genital mutilation is officially forbidden in many countries.
02:01:23 · Never the less six thousand girls are maimed daily.