Two incredible and inspirational women are coming together to celebrate an important cause.
Meghan Markle and Malala Yousafzai are teaming up together to celebrate the International Day of the Girl on Sunday, October 11. It outlines the importance of women’s rights to education.
According to , the Duchess of Sussex will join Malala, along with Prince Harry, for a live video chat which will be streamed on YouTube. The publication reports they will discuss “why it’s essential that we champion every girl’s right to learn”.
Malala has continually advocated for girls’ rights to education. She rose to global prominence in 2012 after being shot in the head by Taliban gunmen as she boarded her school bus in north-west Pakistan.
The teen first became a target for the regime after defying a ban issued in 2009 forbidding girls to go to school and penning an anonymous blog for the BBC highlighting life under Taliban rule with a personal emphasis on women’s right to education.
She went on to become the youngest person ever to Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, being just 17-years-old. The human rights activist went to go on to begin her studies at Oxford University in 2017, where she recently graduated from.
Meghan herself has also been a keen advocate for women’s rights undertaking many projects when she was based in the UK to help females and continues to do so now she’s based in Los Angeles.
