Elizabeth Nyamayaro: An Invitation to Men Who Want a Better World for Women | TED

譯者: Anna Tan 審譯者: Ming Gui Tan

I will always remember

我永遠不會忘記

the first time I met the girl in the blue uniform.

第一次遇到那個穿著藍色制服的女孩

I was eight at the time,

那時我八歲

living in the village with my grandmother,

跟祖母住在村𥚃

who was raising me and other children.

她養育我和其他孩子

Famine had hit my country of Zimbabwe,

那時津巴布韋爆發饑荒

and we just didn't have enough to eat.

我們總是沒有足夠的食物

We were hungry.

我們真的很餓

And that's when the girl in the blue uniform

那穿著藍色制服的女孩就是在那個時候

came to my village with the United Nations

跟隨聯合國團隊 來到我的村落

to feed the children.

來填飽孩子們的肚子

As she handed me my porridge,

當她把一碗粥遞給我時

I asked her why she was there,

我問她到那裡來的原因

and without hesitation, she said,

她毫不猶豫地說：

"As Africans, we must uplift all the people of Africa."

身為非洲人 我們一定要振興整個非洲。

I had absolutely no idea what she meant.

我當時完全不明白她在說什麼

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

But her words stuck with me.

但我牢牢記住她說的話

Two years later,

兩年後

famine hit my country for the second time.

飢荒再次籠罩非洲

My grandmother had no choice but to send me to the city

我祖母別無選擇 唯有送我到城市

to live with an aunt I had never met before.

跟一位從未見面的嬸嬸同住

So at the age of 10,

我到了10歲

I found myself in school for the very first time.

才頭一次上學

And there, at the city school,

在那所城市學校

I would experience what it was to be unequal.

我將體驗到不平等的真諦

You see, in the village,

在村子𥚃

we were all equal.

所有人都平等啊！

But in the eyes and the minds of the other kids,

但是在學校裡其他孩子的眼中

I was not their equal.

我就是比他們低賤

I couldn't speak English,

我不會說英語

and I was way behind in terms of reading and writing.

而且閲讀和寫作的能力 遠遠的落後

But this feeling of inequality would get even more complex.

這種被差別待遇的心情 將會變得更複雜。

Every school holiday

每次的學校假期

spent back in the village with my grandmother

回到村裡 跟祖母渡過的時光

made me consciously aware

都讓我意識到

of the inequalities this incredible opportunity

我這個難得的機緣 在我家裡

had created within my own family.

所帶來的不平等。

Suddenly, I had much more than the rest of my village.

突然間 我比其他村民 擁有得更多⋯

And in their eyes, I was no longer their equal.

在他們眼中 我不再和他們一樣平等了

I felt guilty.

我感到內疚

But I thought about the girl in the blue uniform,

但我想到那位穿著藍色制服的女孩

and I remember thinking,

然後回憶起當時的想法：

"That's who I want to be --

＂我想成為她--

someone like her,

跟她一樣

someone who uplifts other people."

為他人謀取福利

This childhood experience led me to the United Nations,

這童年的經歷 把我帶到聯合國

and to my current role with UN Women,

也促成我現在與聯合國婦女署合作

where we are addressing one of the greatest inequalities

我們著手於 影響超過全球一半人口

that affects more than half of the world's population --

的極度不平等待遇--

women and girls.

也就是女性及小女孩。

Today, I want to share with you

今天 我想跟大家分享

a simple idea that seeks to uplift all of us together.

一個可以為大家帶來平等待遇的 簡單觀念

Eight months ago,

八個月前

under the visionary leadership of Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka,

在由聯合國婦女署的領導人 Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

head of UN Women,

的主導下

we launched a groundbreaking initiative

我們展開了突破性的運動

called HeForShe,

叫做 HeForShe （他為她）

inviting men and boys from around the world

呼籲世界各地的男性及男孩

to stand in solidarity with each other and with women,

一起與女性站在同一陣線上

to create a shared vision for gender equality.

共同創造性別平等的願景

This is an invitation for those who believe in equality

我們邀請那些相信

for women and men,

男女平等的人

and those who don't yet know that they believe.

和那些還不知道自己相信這信念的人

The initiative is based on a simple idea:

這項運動憑著一個簡單的概念：

that what we share is much more powerful

那就是我們的一致

than what divides us.

能夠抵抗分化我們的勢力。

We all feel the same things.

我們能覺知同樣的感受，

We all want the same things,

我們想得到同樣的東西，

even when those things sometimes remain unspoken.

雖然這些東西 大家都不明講

HeForShe is about uplifting all of us,

HeForShe的目的 在於提升我們每一個人，

women and men together.

包括男性和女性。

It's moving us towards an inflection point for gender equality.

它帶我們一起走向男女平等的轉折點

Imagine a blank page

想像有一個空白的頁面

with one horizontal line splitting it in half.

中間有一條橫線把它分成兩半

Now imagine that women are represented here,

現在想像這邊代表女性，

and men are represented here.

這邊代表男性。

In our current population,

以我們現時的人口而言

HeForShe is about moving the 3.2 billion men,

HeForShe 想要把3.2憶的男性，

one man at a time,

每次一位，

across that line,

移到這條線的另一邊，

so that ultimately, men can stand alongside women

最終讓男性可以跟女性站在同一陣線上

and be on the right side of history,

回到歷史的正軌

making gender equality a reality in the 21st century.

讓性別平等在21世紀成為事實。

However, engaging men in the movement would prove quite controversial.

但是邀請男士加入運動 會引起爭議

Why invite men? They are the problem.

為什麼要邀請男士？ 他們就是問題的來源！

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

In fact, men don't care, we were told.

事實上 我們聽說 男士並不在乎

But something incredible happened when we launched HeForShe.

但是在我們開始HeForShe後 讓人難以置信的事情發生了，

In just three days, more than 100,000 men

短短3日內 已經有超過10萬位男士

had signed up and committed to be agents of change for equality.

參與和承諾協助推動 這項性別平等活動

Within that first week, at least one man in every single country in the world

首個星期內 各國至少有一位男性

stood up to be counted,

都站了出來，

and within that same week,

而在同一個星期內，

HeForShe created more than 1.2 billion conversations on social media.

HeForShe 在社群媒體裡 已經掀起了1.2憶的對話

And that's when the emails started pouring in,

電郵就在那時蜂湧而至

sometimes as many as a thousand a day.

有時多到一天有一上千封

We heard from a man out of Zimbabwe,

我收到一位津巴布韋的男人的消息，

who, after hearing about HeForShe,

他聽說了 HeForShe 的活動後

created a "husband school."

建立了一間＂丈夫學校＂

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

He literally went around his village,

他真的走遍整條村落

hand-picking all of the men that were abusive to their partners,

親自挑選所有虐待伴侶的男性

and committed to turn them into better husbands and fathers.

立志把他們變成好丈夫 好爸爸

In Pune, India, a youth advocate organized an innovative bicycle rally,

在印度浦那城 有位年輕支持者組織了

mobilizing 700 cyclists

一次創新的單車大會 帶動了700位騎自行車人士

to share the HeForShe messages within their own community.

在自己社區分享HeForShe的資訊

In another impact story,

還有一個感人至深的故事

a man sent a very personal note

有位男士轉來一則很私人的信函

of something that had happened in his own community.

那是關於在他的社區裡 發生的一件事

He wrote,

他寫道

"Dear Madam,

＂敬啟者

I have lived all of my life

我這一生中

next door to a man who continuously beats up his wife.

一直住在一個 終日虐打他妻子的男人隔壁

Two weeks ago,

兩個星期前

I was listening to my radio,

我在聽廣播

and your voice came on,

跟著聽到妳的聲音⋯

and you spoke about something called the HeForShe,

你說到什麼HeForShe的，

and the need for men to play their role.

還有男性扮演自己角色的必要性。

Within a few hours, I heard the woman cry again next door,

不到幾個小時 我又聽到隔壁的女人哭嚎

but for the first time,

但我第一次

I didn't just sit there.

沒有袖手旁觀

I felt compelled to do something,

我覺得一定要做點事，

so I went over and I confronted the husband.

於是我走過去 跟她丈夫對峙

Madam, it has been two weeks,

夫人，自從那一次以後 我已有2星期

and the woman has not cried since.

沒有聽那個女人哭嚎

Thank you for giving me a voice."

多謝你給我勇氣去發言

(Applause)

（鼓掌聲）

Personal impact stories such as these

像這樣富有影響力的親身經驗

show that we are tapping into something within men,

告訴我們，我們在啟發 男性心靈裡的某些東西

but getting to a world where women and men are equal

但是要做到男女平等

is not just a matter of bringing men to the cause.

不僅僅是要把男性們加入這項運動

We want concrete, systematic, structural change that can equalize

我們要一個實在、系統化和結構化的改變 足以讓

the political, economic and social realities for women and men.

在政治，經濟以及社會上的現實

We are asking men to make concrete actions,

我們呼籲男性能有實際的行動

calling them to intervene at a personal level,

從自己開始

to change their behavior.

來改變自己的行為

We are calling upon governments, businesses, universities,

我們呼籲政府、公司以及大學

to change their policies.

改變他們的政策

We want male leaders to become role models

我們希望男性領導能成為榜樣

and change agents within their own institutions.

在他們自己的機構裡作出改變

Already, a number of prominent men and leaders have stepped up

目前已經有一些傑出的男性和領導 站了出來

and made some concrete HeForShe commitments.

為He for She許下實在的承諾。

In a few early success stories,

在早期的一些成功的案例裡

a leading French hospitality company, Accor,

一個在法國有領導地位的 醫學公司, Accord

has committed to eliminate the pay gap

承諾在2020前消除 18萬員工

for all of its 180,000 employees by 2020.

薪金上的差別

(Applause)

（鼓掌）

The government of Sweden,

瑞典政府

under its current feminist government,

在女性主義的政府下

has committed to close both the employment and the pay gap

也承諾在最近的選期 會拉近所有人民之間的

for all of its citizens within the current electoral term.

聘請和工資差異

In Japan, the University of Nagoya

在日本， 名古屋大學

is building, as part of their HeForShe commitments,

為了實踐對HeForShe的承諾 正在修建

what will become one of Japan's leading gender-research centers.

將會在日本成為 前瞻性的性別研究中心

Now, eight months later,

現在， 8個月之後

a movement is building.

HeForShe的影響力正在擴張

We are seeing men sign up from every single walk of life,

我們看見很多男性加入， 他們來自各行各業

and from every single corner in the world,

來自世界的每一個角落

from the United Nations' own Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

包括從聯合國秘書長潘基文

to the Secretary-Generals of NATO and the EU Council,

到北大西洋公約秘書長和歐盟委員

from the prime minister of Bhutan

包括不丹的總理

to the president of Sierra Leone.

以至於塞拉利昂的總統

In Europe alone, all the male EU Commissioners

僅是在歐洲， 所有歐盟的男性委員們

and the members of Parliament of the Swedish and Iceland governments

和瑞典以及冰島的國會議員們

have signed up to be HeForShe.

都加入了He for She的活動。

In fact, one in 20 men in Iceland has joined the movement.

事實上，在冰島， 每20個男性就有一個加入了這個活動

The rallying call of our passionate goodwill ambassador, Emma Watson,

我們熱情十足的親善大使 艾瑪 沃特森的號召

has garnered more than five billion media impressions,

獲得了超過50億的媒體點擊量

mobilizing hundreds and thousands of students around the world

牽動了全球成千上萬的學生

to create more than a hundred HeForShe student associations.

來創建超過100個He for She的學生協會

Now this is the beginning of the vision that HeForShe has

現在，這就是He for She 為我們想要看到的未來

for the world that we want to see.

帶來的喜訊

Einstein once said,

愛因斯坦曾經說過

"A human being is part of the whole ...

人類是整體的一部分

but he experiences himself,

但是他的經驗

his thoughts and feelings,

他的思想和感受

as something separate from the rest ...

有別於其他的個體

This delusion is a kind of prison for us ...

這種錯覺對我們來說就像監獄

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison

我們應該把自己從這監獄裡解放出來

by widening our circle of compassion."

方法就是擴大我們對他人的慈悲心

If women and men are part of a greater whole,

如果男性和女性都是這個整體的一部分

as Einstein suggests,

那就像愛因斯坦建議的

it is my hope that HeForShe can help free us to realize

我希望He for She能幫助我們意識到

that it is not our gender that defines us,

我們的性別並不能定義我們

but ultimately, our shared humanity.

究竟上，只有我們 共通的人性才能定義我們

HeForShe is tapping into women's and men's dreams,

He for She正在啟發我們的夢想

the dreams that we have for ourselves,

對自己持有的夢想

and the dreams that we have for our families, our children,

對我們的家人，孩子

friends, communities.

朋友，社會抱有的夢想。

So that's what it is about.

這就是這個活動的意義

HeForShe is about uplifting all of us together.

He for She的目的就是為大家 謀取福利

Thank you.

謝謝

(Applause)

（掌聲）