--- title: Emma Watson Urges Men to Support Women's Rights at U.N. description: British actress Emma Watson called on men and boys around the globe to join the movement for gender equality during a speech at the U.N. canonical: https://time.com/3415901/emma-watson-womens-rights-u-n/ author: Charlie Campbell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-22T02:02:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:56:01.376Z og:title: Watch Emma Watson Explain Why She’s a Feminist og:description: British actress Emma Watson called on men and boys around the globe to join the movement for gender equality og:url: https://time.com/3415901/emma-watson-womens-rights-u-n/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c45aeb8f9cfbe42/6986a485f983e7940004fc33/emma-watson-feminist-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2432 og:image:height: 1368 og:image:alt: UN Women Goodwill Ambassador British actress Emma Watson attends HeForShe Campaign in New York og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Emma Watson Explain Why She’s a Feminist twitter:description: British actress Emma Watson called on men and boys around the globe to join the movement for gender equality twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c45aeb8f9cfbe42/6986a485f983e7940004fc33/emma-watson-feminist-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Emma Watson Explain Why She's a Feminist > Sponsored content. 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Jason Szenes—EPA  by [Charlie Campbell](https://time.com/author/charlie-campbell/)  ## Charlie Campbell Editor at Large Sep 22, 2014 2:02 AM UTC British actress Emma Watson [called](http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2014/9/20-september-heforshe-press-release) on men and boys around the globe to join the movement for gender equality during a moving speech given in her role as U.N. Women global goodwill ambassador. “I want men to take up this mantle. So their daughters, sisters and mothers can be free from prejudice, but also so that their sons have permission to be vulnerable and human too — reclaim those parts of themselves they abandoned and in doing so be a more true and complete version of themselves,” she said at the U.N. headquarters in New York City on Saturday. The 24-year-old actress, who gained worldwide fame for her role as Hermione Granger in the _Harry Potter_ movie franchise, was speaking as part of the [HeForShe](http://www.heforshe.org/) global solidarity movement to promote women’s rights and equality between the sexes. 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