During this week's United Nations Summit, Emma Watson took part in a small panel where she spoke at the launch of the HeForShe IMPACT 10x10x10 University Parity Report in New York City on Tuesday morning. A few photos of that can be seen below.

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At the sidelines of the 71st United Nations General Assembly today, UN Women unveiled the first-ever HeForShe IMPACT 10x10x10 University Parity Report. In the groundbreaking report, 10 leading global universities lay out concrete commitments and begin charting their progress toward achieving gender parity. Launched in 2015, the HeForShe IMPACT 10x10x10 is an initiative that convenes ten Heads of State, ten global CEOs and ten University Presidents to fast-track gender equality in boardrooms, classrooms and world capitals.

The group of 10 IMPACT universities span across eight countries on five continents:
Georgetown University, USA; Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), France; Nagoya University, Japan; Stony Brook University, USA; the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; the University of Leicester, UK; University of Oxford, UK; the University of São Paulo, Brazil; the University of Waterloo, Canada; and the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

With more than half of the world's population under 30 and university graduation rates rising, universities have an unprecedented opportunity to make a difference. This report highlights three important critical imbalances that universities can address: 1) the ratio of men to women represented in university faculty and senior administrative positions; 2) the fields of study selected by young women versus young men; and 3) the number of female students at universities compared to their equal access to academic and professional career tracks.

"Each generation of university students that emerges from these formative years of education is a new chance for the world to make progress," said Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women. "Now that our IMPACT Champions are leading such well targeted initiatives to tackle current barriers to gender equality, we can look to these cadres of HeForShe graduates, and the changing profiles of academia, with renewed hope."

The launch of today's report marks the completion of the first year in the IMPACT 10x10x10 initiative for participating universities. In the report, University HeForShe IMPACT Champions present transparent baseline figures on the representation of women across their student and faculty populations against which future progress will be measured and published on an annual basis. This dataset refers to women at undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as faculty and senior leadership roles.

In total, the ten universities have committed to monitoring their progress on 30 commitments. 70% of IMPACT Champions have committed to closing the gender gap in administration; 40% have committed to closing the gender gap in academia; 30% have committed to creating centers of excellence in gender equality; and 40% have committed to ending violence on campus.

"Sustainable development is not possible and peace will not be lasting, without empowering every girl and woman," said Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO. "I see the face of the new global agenda as that of a 12-year-old girl, in school, not forced into marriage or work. It is the face of a 20-year-old woman, at university, creating and sharing knowledge. This is the importance of the HeForShe IMPACT 10x10x10 Initiative."

UN Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson, who launched the HeForShe movement in 2014, and took part in the report launch said that, "A good university is like a tiny utopia – it's a miniature model of how the whole of society could look. All our IMPACT Champions have chosen to make gender parity a central part of the way they educate their students."

An evening reception to mark the release of the report and the second year anniversary of HeForShe, will be held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York later in the day. The event will be co-hosted by three IMPACT 10x10x10 Champions: His Excellency Sauli Niinistö, President of Finland; Bob Moritz, Chairman, PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited; and Samuel L. Stanley Jr, President of Stony Brook University. This special event will bring together Heads of State IMPACT Champions, University IMPACT Champions, corporate IMPACT Champions as well as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson, activists and other HeForShe Celebrity Champions.

The Harry Potter actress participated in a few campaigns to get fans and people worldwide involved in the Global Goals for Sustainable Development, and asked everyone to take part in a survey about gender equality, found here.