Gender Equality Is Your Issue Too / Chinasa
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
Links
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HeForShe
(heforshe.org) -
Four charts on the global state of gender equality (World Economic Forum)
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Gender equality? It doesn't exist anywhere in the world (LA Times)
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Interview with Emma Watson
(interviewmagazine.com) -
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Guardian)
(theguardian.com)