As Miss Venezuela was crowned the competition's 61st winner last night, feminists chanted outside the exhibition hall, carrying placards with slogans such as "objectification won't achieve world peace".

Sabrina Qureshi, the founder of Million Women Rise, said that, far from harmless fun, beauty pageants were a sign of a society that trivialises women in a way that leads to violence such as the murder of Joanna Yeates. "We have read that the murderer of Joanna Yeates was using pornography which contained images very similar to how he murdered Joanna," said Ms Qureshi.

"To stop such heinous crimes against women and girls, we need to stop trivialising what may appear to be harmless practices and start joining up the dots of women's treatment, representation and discrimination."

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