BOGOTÁ, Colombia — It could have been any beauty pageant in Latin America as two dozen contestants, wearing gold cocktail dresses, stood expectantly on the stage. But when the moment came to announce her name — and her measurements — Camila Canicoba offered a different figure.

“My measurements are 2,202 cases of feminicide reported in the last nine years in my country,” Ms. Canicoba, a contestant for the Miss Peru pageant said into the microphone on Sunday.

The others behind her followed suit. One woman spoke of children who die from sexual abuse. Another said 70 percent of women had been victims of attacks on the streets of Peru.

As women in the United States have spoken out in recent weeks against sexual abuse by men in Hollywood, the media and government, the beauty pageant in Peru has ignited its own wave of debate this week in a part of the world where violence against women is more extreme by many statistics.