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In remarks delivered via video to the United
Nations Foundation's 2020 Girl Up Leadership Summit, Meghan
noted that the generation she was speaking to grew up with
digital technology and knew online media better than anyone.
"You understand that our online world has the power to affirm
and support as much as it does to harm," said Meghan, the wife
of Queen Elizabeth's grandson Prince Harry.
"There will always be negative voices and sometimes those voices
can appear to be outsized, and sometimes they can appear to be
painfully loud," she said.
"You can and will use your own voices to drown out the noise,"
she added. "Because that's what it is - just noise. But your
voices are those of truth and hope. And your voices can and
should be much louder."
Meghan, Harry and their baby son Archie now live in Los Angeles,
having stepped down from royal duties at the end of March,
partly because of intense media intrusion into their lives and
critical comments directed toward her.
Meghan's audience on Tuesday included girls and women aged 13 to
22 from 172 countries.
She noted that young women already had begun making positive
changes by organizing Black Lives Matter protests and advocating
for criminal justice reform, mental health resources, and steps
to end gun violence.
Going forward, "your gut will tell you what's right and what's
wrong, what's fair and unfair," she said. "The hardest part, and
it was the hardest part for me, is to chase your convictions
with action."
(Reporting by Lisa Richwine, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)
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