篇一：emma Watson联合国演讲
Today, we are launching a campaign called HeForShe.
I'm reaching out to you because we need your help.
We want to end gender inequality and to do this, we need everyone involved.
This is the first campaign of its kind at the UN.
We want to try and galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocats for change and we don't just want to talk about it. We want to try and make sure that it's tangible.
I was appointed as Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women six months ago and the more I've spoken
about feminism, the more I have realized the fighting for women's rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating. If there is one thing I know for certain it is that this has to stop.
For the record, feminism, by definition,is the belief that men and women should h-ave equal rights and opportunities.
It is the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes.
I started questioning gender-based assumptions a long time ago.
When I was 8, I was confused being called "bossy" because I wanted to direct the plays that we would put on for our parents.but the boys were not.When at 14, I started to be sexualized by certain elements of the media .When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of their beloved sports teams because they didn't want to appear "muscley".When at 18, my male friends were unable to express their feelings.
I decided that I was a feminist.And this seems uncomplicated to me.
But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word. Women are
choosing not to identify as feminists.
Apparently, I'm among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too strong too aggressive, isolating, and anti-menunattractive, even.
Why has the word become such an uncomfortable one
I am from Britain.
And I think it is right that I am paid the same as my male counterparts.
I think it is right that I should be able to make decisions about my own body.
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(Applause)
I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and the decisions that will affect my life.
I think it is right that socially I am afforded the same respect as men.
But sadly, I can say that there is no one country in the world where all women can expect to receive these rights.
No country in the world can yet say that they have achieve gender equality.
These rights I consider to be human rights.
But I am one of the lucky ones.
My life is a sheer privilege
because my parents didn't love me less because I was born a daughter.
My school did not limit me because I was a girl.
My mentors didn't assume that I will go less far because I might give birth to a child one day. These influences were the gender equality ambassadors that made me who I am today.
They may not know it, that they are the inadvertent feminists who are changing the world today. We need more of those.
And if you still hate the word, it is not the word that is important.
It's the idea and the ambition behind it.艾玛沃特森
Because not all women have received the same rights that I have.
In fact, statistically, very few have been.
In 1997, Hillary Clinton made a famous speech in Beijing about women's rights.
Sadly, many of the things that she wanted to change are still true today.
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But what stood out for me the most was that less than 30 percent of the audience were male. How can we affect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation
Men, I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation.
(Applause)
Gender equality is your issue, too.
Because to date, I've seen my father's role as a parent being valued less by society
despite my needing his presence, as a child, as much as my mother's.
I've seen young men suffering from mental illness
unable to ask for help, for fear it would make them less of a men, or less of a man.
In fact, in the U.K., suicide is the biggest killer of men, between 20 to 49
eclipsing road accidents, cancer and coronary heart disease.
I've seen men made fragile and insecure by a distorted sense of what constitutes male success.
Men don't have the benefits of equality, either.
We don't often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that they are. And that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence.
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