Beauty queens turn pageant into protest
Earlier this year, it was reported that Peru has seen a whopping 26 per cent increase in complaints about gender violence between January and April 2017.
The massive surge prompted the country's Minister for Women and Vulnerable Populations, Ana Maria Romero-Lozada, to call for a system reform so that gender crime reports could be properly dealt with.
We don't want to send a lot of people to jail, but if someone must go, then he should go, she said.
The growing issue has sparked a wave of feminist protests across the South American nation, and now, contestants of the Miss Peru beauty pageant have spoken out.
During a segment in which the women are usually required to announced their measurements (bust, waist, hip) to the audience, competitors instead used their moment on s...