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Malala calls on Canadian PM for talks on G7 GEAC

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OTTAWA: The Noble Prize laureate and activist for women and girls education, Malala Yousafzai, on Saturday met Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for talks on G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council (GEAC).

In a twitter statement, the Canadian prime minister said: “Great to catch up with @Malala today in Ottawa.”

He also shared a photograph of his meeting with Malala on his official tweeter handle, saying: “We talked about the important work of the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council and our commitment to making sure more women & girls around the world get to go to school.”

In June this year, pledges worth nearly $3 billion dollars to help vulnerable women and girls, including refugees, get an education were announced at a G7 summit.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who hosted his fellow leaders at a Quebec resort on June 11, called it “the single largest investment in education for women and girls in crisis and conflict situations.”

Canada will provide $300 million of the total.

The amount was more than feminist groups that met with Trudeau on the sidelines of the summit had asked for, earning the G7 praise from civil society groups and activists, including Nobel prize-winner Malala Yousafzai who said it would “give more girls hope that they can build a brighter future for themselves”.

The funds give “young women in developing countries the opportunity to pursue careers instead of early marriage and child labor,” Malala wrote on Twitter.

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