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Gender Issue Is Your Issue Too

Emma Watson, a British actress known for her role in Harry Potter, has been a prominent advocate for gender equality, serving as a U.N. Women Goodwill Ambassador since 2014. Through the HeForShe campaign, she encourages men and boys to support women's rights and has highlighted significant cultural shifts towards gender equality. Watson's activism has garnered both praise and criticism, but she emphasizes the importance of collective commitment to the movement.

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Gender Issue Is Your Issue Too

Emma Watson, a British actress known for her role in Harry Potter, has been a prominent advocate for gender equality, serving as a U.N. Women Goodwill Ambassador since 2014. Through the HeForShe campaign, she encourages men and boys to support women's rights and has highlighted significant cultural shifts towards gender equality. Watson's activism has garnered both praise and criticism, but she emphasizes the importance of collective commitment to the movement.

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Gender Issue is Your

Issue Too
Emma Watson
Emma Watson

• Emma Watson is a British actress and model born in 1990, who is best
known for her 10-year stint as Hermione Granger in the eight Harry
Potter movies.
• Born in Paris, France to a pair of now-divorced British lawyers, she
made a reported $60 million for playing Granger in the eight Harry
Potter films.
• Watson has been actively involved in humanitarian causes for several
years, working to promote fair trade and organic clothing, and as an
ambassador for Camfed International, a movement to educate girls in
rural Africa.
Celebrity Feminism

• Watson is one of several women in the arts who have leveraged their
high profile status to bring women's rights issues to the public eye.
• These women have been both celebrated and criticized for the
positions they have taken; the term "celebrity feminist" is sometimes
used to denigrate their credentials or question their authenticity, but
there is no doubt that their championships of different causes have
shed public light into myriad issues.
The U.N. and HeForShe

• In 2014, Watson was named a U.N. Women Goodwill Ambassador by the


United Nations, a program that actively involves prominent personalities in
the fields of arts and sports to promote U.N. programs.
• Her role is to serve as an advocate for U.N. Women's gender equality
campaign known as HeForShe.
• HeForShe, led by the U.N.'s Elizabeth Nyamayaro and under the direction of
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, is a program dedicated to improving the status
of women and inviting men and boys around the world to stand in solidarity
with women and girls as they make that make gender equality a reality.
• The speech at the United Nations was part of her official role as U.N.
Women Goodwill Ambassador.
• Actor Emma Watson extolled the work of activists and asked them to
recommit to gender equality at the UN Women HeForShe second
anniversary event, held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
• Watson shared a number of her defining moments since the 2014 launch
of HeForShe.
• Among them, she listed the number of high profile advocates who signed
on to the movement: The UN Secretary General, the entire EU
commission, the NATO Secretary General, the President of the
International Olympic Committee, numerous heads of state and politicians,
as well as athletes such as Usain Bolt and actors such as Tom Hanks.
• Watson mentioned a number of “seismic shifts” that are happening in
our culture at the moment, but at the same time, she closed her
remarks by calling on people to strengthen their efforts.
• “I ask that you recommit yourself to be part of the movement for
gender equality. I genuinely feel that we are closer to a gender equal
world than we were two years ago… And I know each and every
‘HeForShe’ has played a part in that,” she said.

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