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299Thank you your excellencies President of the General Assembly Executive Director of the UN women UN Secretary General and honored guests for being part of this important moment Today we send forth the movement HeForShe but still we need your support to put an end to gender inequality This is the first UN campaign that have this kind of purpose We want to try to create a change in which men and women contribute And our intention is to create a change that can be seen in the future a change that is tangible I was chosen as Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women And it is important to mention that the more I want to transmit feminism the more I get to acknowledge that nowadays when women fights for their rights they are being associated with man hating this is why other females are choosing to be against HeForShe This needs to end because if you believe in the social political and economical equality of the sexes you are a feminist I chose to be a feminist and it was simple to me But now I found out that through my research that the word feminist has become an unpopular one and has started to be hated but that is not what is important but the ambition behind it due to the fact that not all females have the same rights as me
As until this day I ve been a witness of how the importance of the role as parent for male has decreased into a 50 this massive erosion of fatherhood contributes mightily to many of the major social problems of our time Fatherless children have a risk factor of two to three times that of fathered children for a wide range of negative outcomes including dropping out of high school giving birth as a teenager and becoming a juvenile delinquent Williams 2011 I ve been witnessing young men going through mental illness without the chance to speak up as people would think of them less of a man Men are getting a wrong concept of what constitutes male success This means that men are not getting a sense of equality either Men and women should be free of feeling what they want they should be free to be sensitive and strong I am looking forward to a world in which daughters mothers and sisters can feel free from the sexism of nowadays and men too to feel free to be vulnerable We need your help to unite the world to be a better one even though the world is growing with new feminists each day that join a movement of equality This movement is called HeForShe So now I invite you and persuade you take a step forward to be seen and to ask yourself If not me who If not now when