Miss Landmine Angola — beauty contest for landmine survivors

The Miss Landmine Angola 2008 competition was created by a Norwegian artist called Morten Traavik — it's been controversial, but has some laudable objectives:

THE MISS LANDMINE MANIFESTO
(in no particular order)

* Female pride and empowerment.

* Disabled pride and empowerment.

* Global and local landmine awareness and information.

* Challenge inferiority and/or guilt complexes that hinder creativity-
historical, cultural, social, personal, African, European.

* Question established concepts of physical perfection.

* Challenge old and ingrown concepts of cultural cooperation.

* Celebrate true beauty.

* Replace the passive term 'Victim' with the active term 'Survivor'

Link

(via Neatorama)