Angelina Jolie is no stranger to fighting the good fight. And now, the United Nations Goodwill Ambassador has turned her attention to Malala Yousafzai, writing an opinion piece in defence of the 14-year-old Pakistani girl’s struggle for educational equality and how she discussed the tragic shooting of Malala with her brood of children.

“I felt compelled to share Malala’s story with my children. It was difficult for them to comprehend a world where men would try to kill a child whose only “crime” was the desire that she and others like her be allowed to go to school,” Angelina wrote in the Daily Beast.