SCRIPT Actress Emma Watson has urged young men to speak out when women are degraded and husbands to support wives to pursue their ambitions as part of a drive to get more men to champion women’s rights. The star who is an ambassador for UN women spoke on Friday at the World Economic Foreign Meeting at Davos. She helped to launch the next phase of her ‘He for She’ Campaign, a drive to encourage men and boys to join the struggle for equal rights. “Girls, who have been your mentors? Parents, did you make sure you treated your children equally? If so, how have you done it? Husbands, have you been supporting your female partner privately so that she can fulfill her dreams too? Young men, have you spoken up in a conversation when a woman has been casually degraded or dismissed? Everyone from Desmond Tutu to Prince Harry, to Hillary Clinton, to Yoko Ono, have issued their support or contacted us September 20th. Everything from marathons being run, merchandise being created, 15 year old boys writing to national newspapers deploring female discrimination, young girls collecting hundreds of signatures_ it all happened in the last 4 months.” The He for She conference video from September has been viewed over eleven million times and sparked 1.2 billion social media conversations. Vocabulary: To urge: presser, pousser Foreign: étranger To launch: lancer, donner le coup d’envoi Struggle: combat To fulfill a dream: realiser un rêve Dismissed:renvoyée A spark: une étincelle
