Emma Watson to United Nations: I’m a Feminist

Emma Watson: Feminism too often is seen as ‘man-hating’ (The Washington Post)

After several well-publicized cases involving athletes from the National Football League, the past few weeks have been flush with conversations about violence against women and how to end it.

On Saturday, actress Emma Watson, best known as Hermione Granger from the “Harry Potter” movies, delivered a moving speech before the United Nations. Watson, a Goodwill Ambassador for U.N. Women, introduced a new campaign called HeForShe aimed at getting men involved as active participants in stopping violence against women.

Watson name-checked former secretary of state Hillary Clinton in her speech, referencing the first lady’s 1995 speech before the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, where Clinton declared, “It is no longer acceptable to discuss women’s rights as separate from human rights.”