Gender Equality Is Your Issue Too / Chinasa

sign In 2014 the famous actress Emma Watson was appointed United Nations Women Goodwill Ambassador. It was a controversial appointment. However, she surprised the media by giving an impassioned address at UN Headquarters in New York to launch the UN Women’s campaign HeForShe.

You can read the speech on page 186. Then turn to page 191 to read a short story about two women, set in an African civil war.

We should all be feminists

TED Talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie