UN / CAMPUS SEXUAL VIOLENCE

On the sidelines of the 71st United Nations General Assembly, UN Women unveiled the first-ever HeForShe IMPACT 10x10x10 University Parity Report, in which 10 leading global universities lay out concrete commitments and begin charting their progress toward achieving gender parity. UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:54
• Production Date: 20 September 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS ENTITY FOR GENDER EQUALITY AND THE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN - UN-WOMEN
• Subject Topical: EDUCATION; GENDER EQUALITY; GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
• MAMS Id: 1712120
• Parent Id: 1712120
• Alternate Title: unifeed160920d

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STORY: UN / CAMPUS SEXUAL VIOLENCE
TRT: 01:54
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 20 SEPTEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

Shotlist

FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
2. Wide shot, #UNGA sign
3. Wide shot, UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson walks to the podium
4. Med shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Emma Watson, Goodwill Ambassador, UN Women:
“What if our experience of university shows us that women don’t belong in leadership? What if it shows us that yes, women can study, but they shouldn’t lead a seminar? What if, as still in many places around the world, it tells us that women don’t belong there at all? What if, as is the case in far too many universities, we are given the message that sexual violence isn’t actually a form of violence?”
6. Pan right, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Emma Watson, Goodwill Ambassador, UN Women:
“We know that if you change students’ experiences so they have different expectations of the world around them, expectations of equality, society will change. As we leave home for the first time to study at the places that we have worked so hard to get, we must not see or experience double standards. We need to see equal respect, leadership, and pay.”
8. Med shot, journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Emma Watson, Goodwill Ambassador, UN Women:
“A university should be a place of refuge that takes action against all forms of violence. That’s why we believe that students should leave university believing in, striving for, and expecting societies of true equality. Societies of true equality in every sense, and that universities have the power to be a vital catalyst for that change.”
10. Wide shot, Watson walks away from the podium

Storyline

On the sidelines of the 71st United Nations General Assembly today (20 Sep), UN Women unveiled the first-ever HeForShe IMPACT 10x10x10 University Parity Report. In the ground-breaking report, 10 leading global universities lay out concrete commitments and begin charting their progress toward achieving gender parity.

At the launch, UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson asked “what if our experience of university shows us that women don’t belong in leadership? What if it shows us that yes, women can study, but they shouldn’t lead a seminar? What if, as still in many places around the world, it tells us that women don’t belong there at all? What if, as is the case in far too many universities, we are given the message that sexual violence isn’t actually a form of violence?”

Watson continued, “we know that if you change students’ experiences so they have different expectations of the world around them, expectations of equality, society will change.”

She said women and girls in university “must not see or experience double standards” but instead “equal respect, leadership, and pay.”

The actor and Goodwill Ambassador said “a university should be a place of refuge that takes action against all forms of violence” and “students should leave university believing in, striving for, and expecting societies of true equality” that “have the power to be a vital catalyst for that change.”

Launched in 2015, the HeForShe IMPACT 10x10x10 is an initiative that convenes ten Heads of State, ten global CEOs and ten University Presidents to fast-track gender equality in boardrooms, classrooms and world capitals.

The group of 10 IMPACT universities span across eight countries on five continents:
Georgetown University, USA; Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), France; Nagoya University, Japan; Stony Brook University, USA; the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; the University of Leicester, UK; University of Oxford, UK; the University of São Paulo, Brazil; the University of Waterloo, Canada; and the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.