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Lowenna Waters

International Malala Day: History, significance, and facts about the Pakistani activist

July 12 is marked each year as Malala Day, as a way to pay tribute to Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai, who works for women’s right to education across the globe.

The activist recently announced that she is working on a new memoir. It is currently untitled and has no scheduled release date, but her previous works include the million-selling I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, published in 2013, the year before she won the Nobel Peace Prize at age 17. Since then, she has graduated from Oxford University and married Asser Malik, a manager with the Pakistan Cricket Board.

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