EMMA WATSON brought her gender-equality campaign to the steps of the world’s university campuses yesterday as she introduced the 2016 HeForShe Impact Report to the UN General Assembly.

“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,” Watson said, reports The Cut. “We need to see equal respect, leadership, and pay. The university experience must tell women that their brain power is valued, and not just that, but that they belong within the leadership of the university itself.”

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The actress, who revealed in September that she was taking a break from acting to focus her attentions on her role as a UN ambassador, addressed the issue of safety at institutions worldwide, urging those in leadership to create a supportive atmosphere.

“So importantly right now, the experience must make it clear, that the safety of women, of minorities and anyone who may be vulnerable, is a right and not a privilege,” she continued, “a right that will be respected by a community that believes and supports survivors and recognises that when one person feels their safety has been violated, everyone feels their own safety has been violated.”

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Watson’s speeches have become a renowned element of the delivery of the annual reports. Her headline-hitting speech that she made in September 2014 at the launch of HeForShe, confirmed her position as a powerful public speaker and connected her with a global audience which globally praised her passion for the subject.

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