A hero is someone who is not afraid of sacrifice to help the greater majority of people. Emma Watson was born in Paris, France in 1990, but she grew up in England. She is an activist for women and human rights, the UN’s Goodwill Ambassador, she started HeForShe and a Feminist Goodreads Book Club and is an amazing activist but what she is best known for is playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. Watson attended Brown University but had to take a couple years off to finish the Harry Potter series (Biography.com Editors 2017). Watson is a hero to many because she’s liberated women from gender hierarchy and continues to help those still oppressed.
Many people around the world are deprived of human rights. About 151.6 million people between the ages of 5 and 17 are in child labor. Child labor is defined by kids participating in hazardous, long work. It puts the child’s well being in danger and means they don’t get an education or childhood. As of 2016, around 40.3 million people were enslaved (“2017”). The women’s rights movement has made many …show more content…
She is working on “closing the gender gap in academia administration and creating university centers that focus on gender equality” (Vagianos 9). Even developed countries have human rights issues such as the US. The United States Federal Government fails to recognize some fundamental human rights such as a right to education, housing, and healthcare (“National”). The UN and other international groups are working to help women but we still have a long way to go. In Saudi Arabia, women were just given the right to drive, but women are still missing out on many other rights, such as education (Gaouette and Labott). Increasing girls education is one of the best ways to mitigate climate change and it would slow growth rates as girls would have fewer children
Many people around the world are deprived of human rights. About 151.6 million people between the ages of 5 and 17 are in child labor. Child labor is defined by kids participating in hazardous, long work. It puts the child’s well being in danger and means they don’t get an education or childhood. As of 2016, around 40.3 million people were enslaved (“2017”). The women’s rights movement has made many …show more content…
She is working on “closing the gender gap in academia administration and creating university centers that focus on gender equality” (Vagianos 9). Even developed countries have human rights issues such as the US. The United States Federal Government fails to recognize some fundamental human rights such as a right to education, housing, and healthcare (“National”). The UN and other international groups are working to help women but we still have a long way to go. In Saudi Arabia, women were just given the right to drive, but women are still missing out on many other rights, such as education (Gaouette and Labott). Increasing girls education is one of the best ways to mitigate climate change and it would slow growth rates as girls would have fewer children