HeforShe at HKU

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HeforShe at HKU

We Care • We Support

Mother's Rooms

HeForShe Action KIT:

Action Kit in English

HeForShe Initiative at HKU:

Facebook Page

HeForShe Initiative:

...."Now it’s time to unify our efforts. HeForShe is a solidarity movement for gender equality that brings together one half of humanity in support of the other half of humanity, for the benefit of all." ~

http://www.heforshe.org/

HKU P - SHOC - a first-of-its-kind app-based course developed by a multi-disciplinary team at The University of Hong Kong, aimed at educating students about how to identify and respond to sexual harassment on campus. It is now available at Google Play / App Store.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/p-shoc/id1281327168

The HeForShe IMPACT Champion Scholarships, offered each year from 2017 onwards, will enable students from economically deprived backgrounds to receive a fully-funded, quality undergraduate education at HKU, in the hope of reducing barriers against social mobility and to promote gender equity for access to higher education in less developed countries.

Actions

Pledge to take action against gender bias, discrimination and violence to bring the benefits of equality to us all. Say #CountMeIn and get your pledge number here: http://www.heforshe.org/en/commit

HeForShe IMPACT 10x10x10 on UN Web TV

HeForShe IMPACT 10x10x10 Inaugural University Parity report Launch - The first progress report since 10 global universities publicly announced bold commitments to achieve gender parity by 2020. (Press Release)

Revisit at http://webtv.un.org/media/press-conferences/watch/launch-the-heforshe-impact-10x10x10-university-parity-report-press-conference-20-september-2016/5133660401001 (President Mathieson speaks at 18:19 in the webstream)

HKU 2016 Idea-thon

The 3 shortlisted solution pitches:

Views and Thoughts:

"The voices of marginalized girls, such as the daughters of migrant families, LBT girls, teenage mothers, pregnant teenagers, and other groups often go unheard....." read More
Statement from the East Asia Sub-regional Conference on Human Rights & Dignity of Asian Girls

“HKU’s commitment to HeForShe is “to be part of something which I think is exciting, timely, important, interesting and empowering....." read more
Professor Peter Mathieson, President and Vice-Chancellor

"...we have come a long way on this front since compulsory education was established in 1978. Today, girls in Hong Kong have ample opportunities for education....Nevertheless, we still lack female role models in many areas of leadership, including across the academic, business, professional, government, and even political sectors....." read more
Dr York Y.N. Chow, Chairperson, Equal Opportunities Commission