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Miss India Priyadarshini Chatterjee competes in the Miss World 2016 contest in Oxon Hill, Maryland on December 18, 2016. – Reuters Photo NEW DELHI, May 31 – The organizers of a great beauty contest Indian women were criticized yesterday for selecting only light – skinned women and human rights activists said the contest highlighted the nation 's failure to respect women of all walks of life.
The Newspaper Times of India That Belongs to the Group Organizing the Annual Femina Festival The Miss India Contest this week published a collage of 30 women, each representing an Indian state – and each fair shelling [19659004Anti-coloristactivistMunaBeattydescribedtheselectionofFeminaMissIndiaasa"copy-and-pastejob"withallthecandidatesShelookedsimilarwithherlongblackhairandfairskinwhichwasinscribedintheobsessedobsessionofIndiabylighterfleshtones
But she warned that such clear-skin bias could affect mental health Estimates of darker-toned women and girls in India, where the controversial issue of treating women has become a debate reflected in this year's general election.
"You have children, children who observe this and think of themselves I do not fit these criteria or that tone of skin, so I'm not beautiful" and … & # 39; I'm not good enough, "she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from Bangalore.
The media complained that the candidates did not represent the diversity and potential of Indian women, including southern states where most people have darker skin.
Neither Times Group nor Femina Miss India responded to repeated requests for comment from the Thomson Reuters Foundation. 19659005] Miss India Femina, or Miss India, annually selects candidates to participate in Miss World, one of the four largest international beauty pageants alongside Miss Universe, Miss Earth and Miss International.
The Annual Contest of beauty, which has kicked off the career of Bollywood superstar, Priyanka Chopra, comes at a time when the treatment of women in the country, which has 1.3 billion people, is more and more watched to the Global Gender Gap report published by the World Economic Forum and whose economic prospects are particularly unfavorable, while violence against women is in the news. about 22% of the active population in 2018, compared to nearly 27% in 2005.
There is concern that the decline in the labor force is weighing heavily on India's economic development and the rise in women's rights in often deeply conservative contexts.
Kavitha Emmanuel, founder of the Indian campaign Dark Is Beautiful, said that she was not surprised at the selection in a country where a woman is often judged according to her appearance and her complex, calling it a "deeply rooted toxic problem".
"You basically say that you have to look for some value to be valued in life" Emmanuel said.
"We need more platforms that present … women as capable people, women with a lot of potential, women who can accomplish much more than women who look good in this type of prescribed format. " – Thomson Reuters Foundation
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