Somali-American model and activist Halima Aden told "CBS This Morning" on Friday, "We need to do better," when it comes to women's rights around the world. "You know, you look at statistics, like ...

Here, writer Jenna Sauers interviews model and activist Halima Aden for our 2017 Women Who Dare series. Halima Aden was born to Somali parents in a UN refugee camp in northeastern Kenya.

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 Thursday.

Model and activist Halima Aden graces January/February 2020 cover of ESSENCE magazine. ... the Somali-American stunner is one of the first hijab-wearing models to rise to international fame, ...

She hasn’t been in front of the lens for 20 years, but Somali model Waris Dirie has once again taken her place at the center of a major fashion campaign to bring attention to the cause of ending ...

The life of former supermodel Waris Dirie, who was born into a nomadic Somali clan in 1965, sounds like fiction. A goatherd by age six who cared for her family’s animals, Dirie ran away at 13 to ...

Yesterday, Somalia lost a bright star. Almaas Elman, a committed Somali-Canadian civil society campaigner, died after being struck by gunfire in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, while driving from ...

When Yasmin Warsame moved to the heart of Toronto's fashion district 20 years ago, she never imagined the role that two downtown neighbourhoods would have on her life and career.

Suud Olat came to the U.S. in 2012. He advocates against global disease and poverty and graduates from St. Cloud State this week.

When Yasmin Warsame moved to the heart of Toronto's fashion district 20 years ago, she never imagined the role that two downtown neighbourhoods would have on her life and career. "We moved right in ...