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Earlier this month, Miss Universe Singapore Bernadette Belle Ong dominated headlines around the world with her bold, statement-making outfit at the Miss Universe 2021 National Costume Show. Designed by Arwin Meriales, the costume took inspiration from the Singapore flag with its red and white colour theme, but what caught the most attention was her advocacy for the #StopAsianHate movement with a hand painted message by Paulo Espinosa on her cape. It s a positive cultural shift, where people in the public eye are using their platform to draw attention to social issues in the wider world. Just think of Ong s peers, Miss Universe Myanmar Thuzar Wint Lwin and Miss Universe Uruguay Lola de los Santos, where the former drew attention to the situation in Myanmar, and the latter with an overarching message against discrimination and prejudice.
27May 2021
The representative for Myanmar at the delayed 2020 Miss Universe pageant has used the competition as a platform to speak out about the military violence in her home country. Taking to the Miss Universe stage in Florida on May 16, Thuzar Wint Lwin wore the traditional dress of Chin women in north-west Myanmar, unfurling a banner that read: “Pray for Myanmar.”
On February 1 this year, the country’s elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi was overthrown and detained by military forces, which have since killed more than 800 opponents, according to the advocacy group Assistance Association for Political Prisoners.
Thousands more people have been detained or forced to flee their homes as fighting escalates between security forces and opposing activists, who have rallied under the banner of the Chinland Defence Force. The militia have recently retreated from the northwestern town of Mindat, they tell
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