艾瑪沃特森聯(lián)合國演講[精校版本]

1、Speech by UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson at a special event for the HeForShe campaign, United Nations Headquarters, New York, 20 September 2014Your excellences, UN Secretary-General, president of the General Assembly, executive Director of UN Women and distinguished guests it is an honour

2、for me to be here today.Today we are launching a campaign called “HeForShe.”I am reaching out to you because I need your help. We want to end gender inequalityand to do that 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

3、as possible to be advocates for change. And we dont just want to talk about it, we want to try and make sure that it is tangible.I was appointed as goodwill ambassador for UN women six months ago and the more I have spoken about feminism the more I have realized that fighting for womens rights has t

4、oo 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 have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political, economic and social equality of t

5、he sexes.”I started questioning gender-based assumptions a long time ago. When I was eight I was confused at being called “bossy,” because I wanted to direct the plays we would put on for our parentsbut the boys were not.When at 14 I started being sexualized by certain elements of the media.When at

6、15 my girlfriends started dropping out of their sports teams because they didnt want to appear “muscly.”When at 18 my male friends were unable to express their feelings.I decided that I was a feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become a

7、n unpopular word.Women are choosing not to identify as feminists. Apparently I am among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too strong, too aggressive, isolating, and anti-men, unattractive, even.Why has the word become such an uncomfortable one?I am from Britain and I think it is right

8、 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. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and decisions that will affect my life.I think it is right that socially I am afforded the same res

9、pect 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 achieved gender equality.These rights I consider to be human rights but I am one of the lucky ones. My life is a sheer priv

10、ilege because my parents didnt love me less because I was born a daughter. My school did not limit me because I was a girl. My mentors didnt assume I would go less far because I might give birth to a child one day. These influencers were the gender equality ambassadors that made who I am today. They

11、 may not know it, but they are the inadvertent feminists who are changing the world today. We need more of those. And if you still hate the wordit is not the word that is important, its the idea and the ambition behind it, because not all women have received the same rights that I have. In fact, sta

12、tistically, very few have been.In 1997, Hilary Clinton made a famous speech in Beijing about womens rights. Sadly many of the things she wanted to change are still true today.But what stood out for me the most was that less than 30 percent of her audiences were male. How can we affect change in the

13、world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?MenI would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender equality is your issue too.Because to date, Ive seen my fathers role as a parent being valued less by society despite my needing

14、his presence as a child as much as my mothers.Ive seen young men suffering from mental illness unable to ask for help for fear it would make them less “of a man” or less of “macho”in fact in the UK suicide is the biggest killer of men between 20-49; eclipsing road accidents, cancer and coronary hear

15、t disease. Ive seen men made fragile and insecure by a distorted sense of what constitutes male success. Men dont have the benefits of equality either.We dont often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change

16、for women as a natural consequence.If men dont have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women wont feel compelled to be submissive. If men dont have to control, women wont have to be controlled.Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be stron

17、g It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum instead of two sets of opposing ideals.If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we arewe can all be freer and this is what He For She is about. Its about freedom.I want men to take up this mantle. So

18、their daughters, sisters and mothers can be free from prejudice but also so that their sons have permission to be vulnerable and human tooreclaim those parts of themselves they abandoned and in doing so be a more true and complete version of themselves.You might be thinking who is this Harry Potter

19、girl? And what is she doing speaking at the UN. And its a really good question. I have been asking myself the same thing.All I know is that I care about this problem. And I want to make it better.And having seen what Ive seenand given the chanceI feel it is my responsibility to say something. States

20、man Edmund Burke said: “All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.”In my nervousness for this speech and in my moments of doubt Ive told myself firmlyif not me, who, if not now, when. If you have similar doubts when opportunities are presented to yo

21、u I hope that those words might be helpful.Because the reality is that if we do nothing it will take 75 years, or for me to be nearly a hundred before women can expect to be paid the same as men for the same work. 15.5 million girls will be married in the next 16 years as children. And at current ra

22、tes it wont be until 2086 before all rural African girls can have a secondary education.If you believe in equality, you might be one of those inadvertent feminists that I spoke of earlier.And for this I applaud you.We are struggling for a uniting world but the good news is we have a uniting movement

23、. It is called HeForShe. I am inviting you to step forward, to be seen and to ask yourself if not me, who, if not now, when.Thank you very very much.今天，我們啟動了一項(xiàng)名為“他為她”的運(yùn)動。我向你伸出手，因?yàn)槲倚枰愕膸椭Ｎ覀兿ＭK結(jié)性別不平等為此，我們需要所有人都參與其中。這是聯(lián)合國同類運(yùn)動中的第一項(xiàng)：我們希望努力并激勵盡可能多的男人和男孩倡導(dǎo)性別平等。而且希望這(性別平等)不只是空談，而是確確實(shí)實(shí)的看得見摸得著。六個(gè)月前，我被任命為聯(lián)合國婦

24、女親善大使。而隨著我談?wù)撆畽?quán)主義越多，我越發(fā)現(xiàn)，“爭取女性權(quán)益”太容易被當(dāng)作是“憎恨男人”的同義詞。如果說有一件事是我確實(shí)知道的，那就是，這樣的誤解必須停止。必須鄭重聲明，女權(quán)主義的定義是：“相信男性和女性應(yīng)該擁有平等權(quán)利和機(jī)會。它是性別間政治、經(jīng)濟(jì)和社會平等的理論?！?歲時(shí)，我開始質(zhì)疑某些基于性別的假設(shè)。我不明白，為什么我想在為家長微博上演的戲劇里擔(dān)任導(dǎo)演，就會被說成“專橫”，而男孩們則不會;14歲時(shí)，我開始被媒體報(bào)道的某些元素性別化;15歲時(shí)，我的女性朋友們開始退出各自的運(yùn)動隊(duì)，因?yàn)樗齻儾幌Ｍ@得“肌肉發(fā)達(dá)”;18歲時(shí)，我的男性朋友們無法表達(dá)他們的感受。我認(rèn)為自己是一名女權(quán)主義者，這(身份

25、認(rèn)定)對我來說并不難。但我最近的調(diào)查發(fā)現(xiàn)，女權(quán)主義已經(jīng)成為一個(gè)不受歡迎的詞。顯然，我成了那些言辭看起來過于強(qiáng)勢、過于激進(jìn)、孤立、反男性、不吸引人的女性行列中的一員。為什么這個(gè)詞如此令人不安?我來自英國，我認(rèn)為身為女性，我應(yīng)該和男性同行獲得一樣的報(bào)酬。我認(rèn)為我應(yīng)該自己為自己的身體做決定。我認(rèn)為應(yīng)該有女性代表我參與政治，以及我的國家的決策制定。我認(rèn)為在社會上，我應(yīng)該和男性獲得相同的尊重。但遺憾的是，世界上沒有一個(gè)國家能使所有的女性都能獲得上述權(quán)利。世界上沒有一個(gè)國家能說，他們已經(jīng)實(shí)現(xiàn)了性別平等。這些權(quán)利，我認(rèn)為是每個(gè)人都該享有，然而(事實(shí)是)我只是眾多幸運(yùn)兒中的一個(gè)。我的生活是完完全全的特例，因?yàn)?/p>

26、我的父母沒有因?yàn)槲疑鸀榕畠憾鴾p少對我的愛，我的學(xué)校沒有因?yàn)槲沂桥⒍拗莆?，我的?dǎo)師沒有因?yàn)槲覍砜赡芤⒆佣J(rèn)為我會走不遠(yuǎn)。這些影響了我的人，都是性別平等大使，是他們造就了今天的我。他們也許并不知道，但他們是無心的女權(quán)主義者。而我們現(xiàn)在，則需要更多這樣的人。所以，如果你仍然憎恨這個(gè)詞重要的不是這個(gè)詞，而是它背后的想法和抱負(fù)。因?yàn)椴⒉皇撬信远寄軌蛳碛形宜鶕碛械臋?quán)利。事實(shí)上，從統(tǒng)計(jì)數(shù)據(jù)看，真的非常少。1997年，希拉里克林頓在北京做了一個(gè)關(guān)于女性權(quán)益的著名演講。很遺憾，很多她希望改變的事實(shí)今天仍存在。我注意到，聽眾里只有30%是男性。當(dāng)只有世界上的一半的人參與并融入這場對話時(shí)，我們怎么可能做出影響世界的改變?男人們我希望利用這個(gè)機(jī)會正式的邀請你們加入。性別平等也與你們有關(guān)。因?yàn)榈侥壳盀橹?，我看到，我父親作為家長所發(fā)揮的作用被社會所低估，雖然作為孩子，我所需要的他的陪伴和我需要母親的一樣多。我看到，年輕男性因?yàn)楹ε伦约猴@得不夠“男子漢大丈夫”，從而在承受心理困擾時(shí)窘于尋求幫助事實(shí)上，在英國，自殺已經(jīng)是20-49歲男性的第一死亡原因，比交通事故、癌癥和冠心病造成的死亡都多。我