Uvijek ću se sjećati prvog susreta s djevojkom u plavoj uniformi Bilo mi je osam godina, živjela sam s mojom bakom u selu, koja je odgajala mene i ostalu djecu. Glad je pogodila moju zemlju Zibabve i mi jednostavno nismo imali dovoljno hrane. Bili smo gladni. Tada je djevojka u plavoj uniformi došla u moje selo s Ujedinjenim nacijama kako bi nahranili djecu.
I will always remember the first time I met the girl in the blue uniform. I was eight at the time, living in the village with my grandmother, who was raising me and other children. Famine had hit my country of Zimbabwe, and we just didn't have enough to eat. We were hungry. And that's when the girl in the blue uniform came to my village with the United Nations to feed the children.
Dok mi je dodavala kašu, pitala sam zašto je ovdje i bez oklijevanja je rekla: "Kao Afrikanke, moramo uzdići sve ljude u Africi." Nisam imala pojma šta je željela reći.
As she handed me my porridge, I asked her why she was there, and without hesitation, she said, "As Africans, we must uplift all the people of Africa." I had absolutely no idea what she meant.
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Njene sam riječi zapamtila.
But her words stuck with me.
Nakon 2 godine glad je ponovo pogodila moju zemlju. Moja baka nije imala izbora nego me poslati u grad. da živim s tetkom koju nikad ranije nisam srela. Tako sam s deset godina prvi put zatekla u školi. Tu, u gradskoj školi ću iskusiti šta znači biti neravnopravan. Vidite, na selu smo svi bili jednaki. Ali u očima i u mislima druge djece nisam bila jednaka. Nisam govorila engleski i veoma sam zaostajala u pogledu čitanja i pisanja. Ovaj osjećaj neravnopravnosti će postati još složeniji. Svaki školski praznik proveden u selu s mojom bakom činio me oprezno svjesnom neravnopravnosti koje je ova nevjerojatna prilika stvorila unutar moje porodice. Iznenada sam bila imućnija od ostalih u selu. I u njihovim očima više nisam bila jednaka.
Two years later, famine hit my country for the second time. My grandmother had no choice but to send me to the city to live with an aunt I had never met before. So at the age of 10, I found myself in school for the very first time. And there, at the city school, I would experience what it was to be unequal. You see, in the village, we were all equal. But in the eyes and the minds of the other kids, I was not their equal. I couldn't speak English, and I was way behind in terms of reading and writing. But this feeling of inequality would get even more complex. Every school holiday spent back in the village with my grandmother made me consciously aware of the inequalities this incredible opportunity had created within my own family. Suddenly, I had much more than the rest of my village. And in their eyes, I was no longer their equal.
Osjećala sam krivicu. Pomislih na djevojku u plavoj uniformi i sjećam se da sam pomislila: "To je ono što želim biti, neko poput nje, neko ko uzdiže druge ljude." Iskustvo iz djetinjstva dovelo me do Ujedinjenih nacija i do moje sadašnje uloge u UN Women, gdje se bavimo jednom od najvećih nejednakosti koja zahvata više od polovine svjetskog stanovništva... žene i djevojčice.
I felt guilty. But I thought about the girl in the blue uniform, and I remember thinking, "That's who I want to be -- someone like her, someone who uplifts other people." This childhood experience led me to the United Nations, and to my current role with UN Women, where we are addressing one of the greatest inequalities that affects more than half of the world's population -- women and girls.
Danas s vama želim podjeliti jednostavnu ideju koja teži k tome da nas svezajedno uzdigne. Prije osam mjeseci, pod vizionarkim vodstvom Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, koja je na čelu UN Women, lansirali smo revolucionarnu inicijativu nazvanu HeForShe (OnZaNju), koja poziva muškarce i dječake širom svijeta da stanu solidarni jedni uz druge i uz žene, i stvore zajedničku viziju rodne ravnopravnosti. Ovo je pozivnica za one koji vjeruju u ravnopravnost za žene i muškarce i za one koji još uvijek ne znaju da vjeruju.
Today, I want to share with you a simple idea that seeks to uplift all of us together. Eight months ago, under the visionary leadership of Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, head of UN Women, we launched a groundbreaking initiative called HeForShe, inviting men and boys from around the world to stand in solidarity with each other and with women, to create a shared vision for gender equality. This is an invitation for those who believe in equality for women and men, and those who don't yet know that they believe.
Inicijativa je utemeljena na jednostavnoj ideji: ono što nam je zajedničko daleko je moćnije od onog što nas razdvaja. Svi imamo iste osjećaje. Svi imamo iste želje, iako te želje nekad ostanu neizgovorene. HeForShe je za uzdizanje svih nas, žena i muškaraca zajedno. To je pokret ka prekretnici za rodnu ravnopravnost.
The initiative is based on a simple idea: that what we share is much more powerful than what divides us. We all feel the same things. We all want the same things, even when those things sometimes remain unspoken. HeForShe is about uplifting all of us, women and men together. It's moving us towards an inflection point for gender equality.
Zamislite praznu stranicu i horizontalnu liniju koja je dijeli na pola. Sada zamislite da su žene predstavljene ovdje, a muškarci su predstavljeni ovdje. U našoj trenutnoj populaciji, HeForShe pokreće 3.2 milijarde muškaraca, jednog po jednog, preko te linije, kako bi napokon i muškarci stajali uz žene na pravoj strani historije, čineći ravnopravnost stvarnošću 21. vijeka.
Imagine a blank page with one horizontal line splitting it in half. Now imagine that women are represented here, and men are represented here. In our current population, HeForShe is about moving the 3.2 billion men, one man at a time, across that line, so that ultimately, men can stand alongside women and be on the right side of history, making gender equality a reality in the 21st century.
Ipak, uključenje muškaraca u pokret se pokazalo prilično kontraverznim. Zašto pozvati muškarce? Oni i jesu problem.
However, engaging men in the movement would prove quite controversial. Why invite men? They are the problem.
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Rekli su nam da muškarcima zapravo nije stalo.
In fact, men don't care, we were told.
Ali dogodilo se neočekivano kad smo pokrenuli HeForShe. U samo tri dana, više od 100.000 muškaraca je potpisalo i obavezalo se da budu agenti promjene za ravnopravnost. Prve sedmice se bar po jedan muškarac svake zemlje svijeta izdvojio i uključio, a te iste sedmice, HeForShe je tvorio više od 1.2 milijarde razgovora na društvenim mrežama. Tada su se mailovi počeli slijevati, ponekad i hiljadu dnevno. Pisao nam je čovjek iz Zibabwea, koji je, čuvši za HeForShe, kreirao "školu za muževe".
But something incredible happened when we launched HeForShe. In just three days, more than 100,000 men had signed up and committed to be agents of change for equality. Within that first week, at least one man in every single country in the world stood up to be counted, and within that same week, HeForShe created more than 1.2 billion conversations on social media. And that's when the emails started pouring in, sometimes as many as a thousand a day. We heard from a man out of Zimbabwe, who, after hearing about HeForShe, created a "husband school."
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Doslovno je hodao po svom selu, biravši muškarce koji su nasilni prema partnericama, odlučan da ih pretvori u bolje muževe i očeve. U Indiji je advokat mladih organizirao inovativan skup mobilizirajući 700 biciklista da djele poruke HeForShe u vlastitoj zemlji.
He literally went around his village, hand-picking all of the men that were abusive to their partners, and committed to turn them into better husbands and fathers. In Pune, India, a youth advocate organized an innovative bicycle rally, mobilizing 700 cyclists to share the HeForShe messages within their own community.
Druga priča govori o čovjeku je poslao veoma ličnu poruku o događaju u njegovoj zajednici. Napisao je: "Draga Madam, stanujem čitavog života vrata do čovjeka koji stalno tuče svoju ženu. Prije dvije sedmice sam slušao svoj radio i čuo Vaš glas kako govori o nečem naziva HeForShe, i potrebi da muškarci odigraju svoju ulogu Za par sati sam čuo kako žena u susjedstvu plače i prvi put nisam ostao sjediti. Osjećao sam poriv da nešto učinim i otišao sam tamo suočiti se s mužem. Madam, prošle su dvije sedmice i žena od tad nije plakala. Hvala što ste mi dali glas."
In another impact story, a man sent a very personal note of something that had happened in his own community. He wrote, "Dear Madam, I have lived all of my life next door to a man who continuously beats up his wife. Two weeks ago, I was listening to my radio, and your voice came on, and you spoke about something called the HeForShe, and the need for men to play their role. Within a few hours, I heard the woman cry again next door, but for the first time, I didn't just sit there. I felt compelled to do something, so I went over and I confronted the husband. Madam, it has been two weeks, and the woman has not cried since. Thank you for giving me a voice."
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Lične priče kao što je ova pokazuju da dodirujemo nešto u muškarcima iako postizanje svijeta u kojem su muškarci i žene jednaki nije samo stvar pridobijanja muškaraca. Želimo konkretne, sistematske, strukturalne promjene koje mogu ujednačiti političku, ekonomsku i društvenu realnost žena i muškaraca. Tražimo od muškaraca konkretne akcije, pozivamo ih na uplitanje do ličnog nivoa, da promjene ponašanje. Pozivamo vlade, biznise, univerzitete da promjene svoje politike. Želimo da muškarci vođe postanu uzori i agensi promjene unutar vlastitih institucija.
Personal impact stories such as these show that we are tapping into something within men, but getting to a world where women and men are equal is not just a matter of bringing men to the cause. We want concrete, systematic, structural change that can equalize the political, economic and social realities for women and men. We are asking men to make concrete actions, calling them to intervene at a personal level, to change their behavior. We are calling upon governments, businesses, universities, to change their policies. We want male leaders to become role models and change agents within their own institutions.
Već je određen broj uglednih muškaraca i vođa istupio i preuzeo konkretne HeForShe obaveze. U prvih par uspješnih priča, vodeća se francuska uslužna kompanija Accor obavezala na ukidanje razlika u plati kod svih 180.000 zaposlenih do 2020.
Already, a number of prominent men and leaders have stepped up and made some concrete HeForShe commitments. In a few early success stories, a leading French hospitality company, Accor, has committed to eliminate the pay gap for all of its 180,000 employees by 2020.
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Vlada Švedske, pod sadašnjom feminističkom vladom, se obavezala na ukidanje razlika u plati i zaposlenju među svim građanima u okviru sadašnjeg mandata. U Japanu, Univerzitet Nagoya gradi, kao dio svoje HeForShe obaveze, jedan od vodećih centara za istraživanje roda u Japanu.
The government of Sweden, under its current feminist government, has committed to close both the employment and the pay gap for all of its citizens within the current electoral term. In Japan, the University of Nagoya is building, as part of their HeForShe commitments, what will become one of Japan's leading gender-research centers.
Sada, osam mjeseci kasnije, pokret se gradi. Vidimo da se prijavljuju razni muškarci iz raznih dijelova svijeta od Generalnog sekretara Ujedinjenih nacija, Ban Ki-Moona do Generalnog sekretara NATO-a i Vijeća EU, od Premijera Bhutana do predsjednika Sierra Leone.
Now, eight months later, a movement is building. We are seeing men sign up from every single walk of life, and from every single corner in the world, from the United Nations' own Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the Secretary-Generals of NATO and the EU Council, from the prime minister of Bhutan to the president of Sierra Leone.
Samo u Evropi su svi povjerenici EU i članovi Parlamenta vlade Švedske i Islanda potpisale da budu HeForShe. Zapravo, jedan od dvadeset muškaraca na Islandu se priključilo pokretu. Skupni poziv naše strastvene ambasadorice, Emme Watson, je skupio preko pet milijardi medijskih dojmova, mobilizirajući stotine i hiljade studenata širom svijeta ka stvaranju stotina HeForShe studentskih asocijacija.
In Europe alone, all the male EU Commissioners and the members of Parliament of the Swedish and Iceland governments have signed up to be HeForShe. In fact, one in 20 men in Iceland has joined the movement. The rallying call of our passionate goodwill ambassador, Emma Watson, has garnered more than five billion media impressions, mobilizing hundreds and thousands of students around the world to create more than a hundred HeForShe student associations.
Ovo je početak vizije koju HeForShe ima za svijet koji želimo vidjeti. Einstein je rekao jednom: "Ljudsko biće je dio cjeline... ali sebe doživljava, svoje misli i osjećaje, kao nešto odvojeno od ostalog... Ova je iluzija kao zatvor za nas... Naš zadatak mora biti oslobađanje od zatvora kroz širenje kruga suosjećanja."
Now this is the beginning of the vision that HeForShe has for the world that we want to see. Einstein once said, "A human being is part of the whole ... but he experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest ... This delusion is a kind of prison for us ... Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion."
Ako su žene i muškarci dio veće cjeline, kao što Einstein ukazuje, nadam se da HeForShe može pomoći da shvatimo da nas ne definira rod nego naša ljudskost, u konačnici. HeForShe dodiruje snove žena i muškaraca, snove koje imamo za sebe i snove koje imamo za svoje porodice i djecu, prijatelje, zajednice.
If women and men are part of a greater whole, as Einstein suggests, it is my hope that HeForShe can help free us to realize that it is not our gender that defines us, but ultimately, our shared humanity. HeForShe is tapping into women's and men's dreams, the dreams that we have for ourselves, and the dreams that we have for our families, our children, friends, communities.
Dakle, o tome se radi. HeForShe radi na uzdizanju svih nas zajedno.
So that's what it is about. HeForShe is about uplifting all of us together.
Hvala.
Thank you.
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