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HeForShe is a solidarity campaign for gender equality initiated by UN Women. Its goal is to engage men and boys as agents of change for the achievement of gender equality and women’s rights, by encouraging them to take action against inequalities faced by women and girls. Grounded in the idea that gender equality is an issue that affects all people — socially, economically and politically — it seeks to actively involve men and boys in a movement that was originally conceived as “a struggle for women by women”. Some noticed the contradiction of a campaign for gender equality which only takes action against inequalities faced by women and girls, ignoring problems affecting men and boys.〔http://dailyorange.com/2014/09/smith-he-for-she-should-work-to-stop-discrimination-against-both-sexes/〕〔http://www.inquirelive.co.uk/comment/article-8542/feminism-is-shouting-but-the-movement-is-a-whisper/〕 On the HeForShe website, a map — which uses a geo-locator to record global engagement in the campaign — counts the number of men and boys around the world who have taken the HeForShe pledge, as UN Women worked towards its goal of engaging 1 million men and boys by July 2015, which hasn't been met.〔http://www.heforshe.org/#take-action〕 The campaign website also includes implementation plans for UN agencies, individuals and civil society, as well as those on university and college campuses, both through online and sustained engagement. “Initially we were asking the question, ‘Do men care about gender equality?’ and we found out that they do care,” said Elizabeth Nyamayaro, senior adviser to the executive director of UN Women. “Then we started to get a lot of emails from men who signed up, who now want to do more.” == History == A special event was held to kick-start the HeForShe campaign on 20 September 2014 at the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York. It was hosted by UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson, whose speech — about her own path to feminism and her call to involve men and boys in promoting gender equality — was widely circulated via social media. At that event, UN Women made a call to mobilize the first 100,000 men in the campaign, a goal successfully reached in just three days. United States President Barack Obama, actor Matt Damon, and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon are among some of the high-profile male champions featured on the site. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HeForShe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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