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Can anybody please summarise the speech given at the UN by emma watson....in 2014....about the HeForShe campaign..
I need to make it in my own words and speak it at school....please help guys....I am offering so many points for this question cause it is veeeery urgent....
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Actress Emma Watson has made a powerful speech for the United Nations on gender, which has sent waves across the world.
The 24-year-old "Harry Potter girl" and UN Women Goodwill Ambassador launched HeForShe Campaign, a U.N. Movement for Gender Equality in New York on September 20, 2014.
The actress gave an impassioned speech on feminism and gender at the U.N. headquarters in New York to launch the “HeForShe” campaign which aims to galvanize one billion men and boys as advocates for ending the inequalities that women and girls face globally.
Watson’s speech, which was met with a thunderous standing ovation, not only called for action from male allies, but clarified a persistent misconception about feminism in general.
Watson is pushing back against recent campaigns like Women Against Feminism. As Watson puts it elsewhere in her speech, these campaigns portray the feminist cause as “man-hating.” By involving both genders in the HeForShe campaign, Watson hopes to abolish the “us vs. them” mentality.
Watson’s speech struck a chord with many and fanned the feminist fire that is, slowly but surely, being reignited.