The New Zealand YWCA [Young Women's Christian Association]...

The New Zealand YWCA [Young Women's Christian Association] called for 17-year-old Miss New Zealand Rachel Heujich to join five other countries in boycotting the Miss World pageant in Nigeria because a woman was sentenced to death by stoning there in August.
"New Zealand has a tradition of standing up for human rights and this is clearly a situation of a state sanctioned human rights violation," YWCA spokeswoman Marguerite Vanderkolk said.
"We should not be supporting this event when the primary benefactor of the event will be a government that abuses women."
France, Belgium, Ivory Coast, Norway and Kenya have boycotted the November 30 event while the Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Togo, Bulgaria and Poland are all considering it.
Miss New Zealand organiser Mark Taylor said the situation in Nigeria was being monitored by Miss World organisers
"In a lot of ways, more can be done by being there and having something to say. And from what I can tell reading about it nobody has ever actually been stoned."