British actor Emma Watson was appointed UN Women Goodwill Ambassador in July 2014. The accomplished actor, humanitarian and recent graduate of Brown University will dedicate her efforts towards the empowerment of young women and will serve as an advocate for UN Women’s HeForShe campaign in promoting gender equality.
At just 24 years of age, Emma has already been involved in the promotion of girls’ education for several years and previously visited Bangladesh and Zambia as part of her humanitarian efforts. She has worked to promote fair trade and organic clothing and served as an ambassador for Camfed International, a movement to educate girls in rural Africa.
“Being asked to serve as UN Women’s Goodwill Ambassador is truly humbling, ” said Emma. “The chance to make a real difference is not an opportunity that everyone is given and is one I have no intention of taking lightly. Women’s rights are something so inextricably linked with who I am, so deeply personal and rooted in my life that I can’t imagine an opportunity more exciting. I still have so much to learn, but as I progress I hope to bring more of my individual knowledge, experience and awareness to this role.”
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Emma is best known for her role as the iconic character of Hermione Granger in the globally successful “Harry Potter” films. Her performance in the first film of the series, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, ” won her a Young Artist Award for Best Leading Young Actor.
Since the completion of the eight-film series, Emma has shown her versatility as a performer with her first screen roles, including the 2011 Golden Globe–nominated “My Week with Marilyn” and the 2012 award-winning coming-of-age film “The Perks of Being a Wallflower, ” for which Emma picked up the People’s Choice Award for Favorite Dramatic Movie Actor and Best Supporting Actor Award at the San Diego Film Critics Society Awards for her role.
Emma was most recently seen in “The Bling Ring, ” the apocalypse comedy “This is the End, ” and the epic biblical tale, “Noah.” Her upcoming projects include “Regression” opposite Ethan Hawke and the film adaptation of “The Queen of the Tearling.”
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In 2012 Emma was honoured with the Calvin Klein Emerging Star Award at the ELLE Women in Hollywood Awards, and in 2013 she was awarded both the Trailblazer Award at the MTV Movie Awards and the GQ Woman of the Year Award.
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UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson delivered a powerful speech at a special event in New York to kick-start the HeforShe campaign, a dynamic solidarity movement for gender equality. MoreUN Women Goodwill Ambassador actress Emma Watson makes a speech at the launch of the HeForShe IMPACT 10x10x10 University Parity Report at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on Sept. 20, 2016.
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Emma Watson has opened up about the “tremendous high” and “crashing low” she experienced after launching her gender equality initiative at the U.N. two years ago.
The actor, now a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, said that her 2014 speech launching the HeForShe campaign “opened Pandora’s Box” to both acclaim and a “a level of critique I had never experienced in my life, ”
Reports. The two years since, she said, have been “a baptism of fire to say the least, where I learnt just how little I know, and also how much.”
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Speaking at the One Young World Summit in Ottawa on Thursday, Watson said that her journey as an activist has led her to find her “tribe” in the form of the global activist network, and continued pushing for a global focus on creating a level playing field for women. “Gender equality is as important as any of the other goals that we are here to discuss. And actually, if anything, it is more important, because it intersects with every single other issue that we face.”
Star was speaking at the Summit to announce the first recipients of a One Young World Scholarship in her name. Watson said that when reading the applications of activists who had applied for the scholarship, there was “so much overlap with the things that I had been thinking about and that I had been struggling with”.
HeForShe recently announced that its next big focus would be tackling gender inequality on university campuses. Watson also unveiled a short film she helped to produce about the challenges to gender equality earlier this week.
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Emma Watson has opened up about the “tremendous high” and “crashing low” she experienced after launching her gender equality initiative at the U.N. two years ago.
The actor, now a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, said that her 2014 speech launching the HeForShe campaign “opened Pandora’s Box” to both acclaim and a “a level of critique I had never experienced in my life, ”
Reports. The two years since, she said, have been “a baptism of fire to say the least, where I learnt just how little I know, and also how much.”
Emma Watson: Her Magic
Speaking at the One Young World Summit in Ottawa on Thursday, Watson said that her journey as an activist has led her to find her “tribe” in the form of the global activist network, and continued pushing for a global focus on creating a level playing field for women. “Gender equality is as important as any of the other goals that we are here to discuss. And actually, if anything, it is more important, because it intersects with every single other issue that we face.”
Star was speaking at the Summit to announce the first recipients of a One Young World Scholarship in her name. Watson said that when reading the applications of activists who had applied for the scholarship, there was “so much overlap with the things that I had been thinking about and that I had been struggling with”.
HeForShe recently announced that its next big focus would be tackling gender inequality on university campuses. Watson also unveiled a short film she helped to produce about the challenges to gender equality earlier this week.
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