{"id":214879,"date":"2019-12-05T14:23:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T20:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=214879"},"modified":"2019-12-05T15:18:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T21:18:12","slug":"miss-world-organization-women-given-birth-compete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/miss-world-organization-women-given-birth-compete\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss World Organization: Women who have ‘given birth to a child’ can’t compete"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last December, the newly crowned Miss Ukraine had her title stripped from her and, as a result, was disqualified from competing in the upcoming Miss World competition, to be held on December 14. The reason? She’s a mother.<\/p>\n

Veronica Didusenko, age 24, is suing Miss World over what she believes to be serious discrimination. Didusenko is a successful model who travels internationally for her modeling career. She also has a five-year-old son who accompanies her on these trips. Has this stopped her from building her own career, or has building her career stopped her from being a mother? The answer to both of these questions is an overwhelming ‘no’ — yet that appears to be the reasoning the Miss World Organization is using to defend their disqualification of Didusenko.<\/p>\n

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On October 14 Ukraine celebrates Defenders\u2019 Day?? \u2800 Alex and I congratulate all of the defenders of our country! Many of them are women, and this deserves praise, respect and admiration. \u2800 Thank you for our freedom.<\/a><\/p>\n

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