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Malala Yousafzai and Greta Thunberg finally met, and the two activists were fast friends

The two young women took a brief pause from advocating for the environment and human rights to meet for the very first time. To no one's surprise, they were fast friends.

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The two young women took a brief pause from advocating for the environment and human rights to meet for the very first time. To no one's surprise, they were fast friends.
  • Greta Thunberg visited Malala Yousafzai at the University of Oxford, where the Pakistani activist is a senior. Thunberg is in the UK for a school strike planned for later this week.
  • In a recent interview with Teen Vogue, the 22-year-old Yousafzai praised Thunberg and Emma Gonzalez, a gun violence survivor and founder of the March For Our Lives movement, for continuing her legacy of activism.
  • “Sometimes in rooms with decision-makers, they don’t have any young people at the table; they don’t even have women, let alone young people,” she told the magazine. “So just to have the voices of young people present there, just to have women being present at those tables, I think it’s a huge difference.”