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Miss Peru candidates share gender violence statistics instead of body measurements
During her reign, Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach used bikini photos to grab people's attention and educate them about HIV/AIDS and since then, the rest of the beauty pageant world is taking a step in this direction.
In the recently concluded Miss Peru 2017 competition, the candidates handed out statistics on gender violence in place of the staple beauty pageant bust-waist-hip numbers the public hears.
Miss Perú, creando conciencia en la sociedad. #MissPeru2018
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The voice of the 23 beauty queens were heard throughout the world as clips of the show went viral, making it to BBC, Vox, Vogue, and more.
BuzzFeed translated a number of the statements, which included:
- “My name is Romina Lozano and I represent the constitutional province of Callao, and my measurements are: 3,114 women victims of trafficking up until 2014.”
- “My name is Luciana Fernández and I represent the city of Huánuco, and my measurements are: 13,000 girls suffer sexual abuse in our country.”
- “My name is Juana Acevedo and my measurements are: more than 70% of women in our country are victims of street harassment.”
BBC quoted one of the women as saying that one child dies every 10 minutes due to sexual exploitation in Peru.
The crown eventually went to Romian Lozano of Callao, who said that her plan is "to implement a database containing the name of each aggressor, not only for femicide but for every kind of violence against women. In this way we can protect ourselves."
She and her fellow beauty queens are planning to march in Lima this November to protest violence against women.
According to data provided by the Philippine National Police to the Center for Women's Resources, a women or a child is physically assaulted in the Philippines every 14 minutes.
Over 30,000 cases of domestic violence reported in the Philippines from January to October in 2016. — LA, GMA News
