In a video from Half the Sky, a campaign dedicated to the empowerment of girls and women across the world, Desmond Tutu questions the sidelining of women in the name of custom or tradition. If these traditions are man-made, he argues, then they can be changed.

Desmond Tutu joins a number of high-profile advocates calling for the empowerment of women as part of the Half the Sky movement, a multimedia campaign challenging the oppression of women and girls across the world.