Lennox counts modern day political leaders as part of the reason that more progress isn’t being made, accusing them of “preventing good things from happening” and silencing the voices and actions of the people who are “doing amazing things.”

Ultimately Lennox feels like the support of women all over the world is needed if we’re going to progress the treatment of women globally, and is urging women in developed countries to call themselves global feminists.

She implored: “Western feminists must wake up and realise that femiminism is a global concept. We must change attitudes and behaviours when it comes to sexual abuse, domestic abuse, sexual violence and rape.”

Before adding that to achieve true equality, we need men on our side: “We don’t have to fight with men. We have to transform negative, abusive attitudes and behaviours. It comes from generational poverty. There are reasons why men abuse women. We need to address it and bring it out of the closet.”

Although issues in the UK such as period poverty, closing the gender pay gap and improving opportunities for women in male-dominated industries are all important, Lennox makes a powerful point that we can’t ignore the issues that aren’t immediately in our view.

Annie Lennox has a powerful message for “western feminists”