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Europe's Missing Models Photos

Waris Dirie poses at the "Women's World Awards" in Hamburg, Germany, Jan. 9, 2004. A former model turned women's rights campaigner, the Somali-born Dirie gained international fame as a model posing in Chanel ads and acting in a James Bond film before launching her campaign against female genital mutilation 1996.

(Photo: AP)