Nafis Sadik was a Pakistan human rights activist and an obstetrician, who led groundbreaking effect to put women rights at the heart of the global population debate. The focused and selfless Nafis was appointed as U.N population fund assistant executive director in 1977 and 10 years later became the first woman to lead a major U.N agency as an Executive director. Nafis was known as the proud “Champion of Choice” and tireless advocate for women’s health, rights, and empowerment.
She earned her ... moreNafis Sadik was a Pakistan human rights activist and an obstetrician, who led groundbreaking effect to put women rights at the heart of the global population debate. The focused and selfless Nafis was appointed as U.N population fund assistant executive director in 1977 and 10 years later became the first woman to lead a major U.N agency as an Executive director. Nafis was known as the proud “Champion of Choice” and tireless advocate for women’s health, rights, and empowerment.
She earned her medical degree at Dow Medical College in Karachi Pakistan. Nafis worked as an intern at Baltimore, Maryland City Hospital practicing gynecology and obstetrics and she managed to study at the John Hopkins University School of Medicine completing her studies, and she furthered her studies to becoming a research fellow in physiology at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario (Canada). Nafis has been renowned for having written opinion essays regarding to how women should have control over their rights to conceive children. Everything she invested her time in was to ensure women are free and empower them in a world and society that oppress, constrain, force, and make them feel inferior.
She retired from the U.N in 2000 and in November 2003 Dr Sadik was appointed a member of the U.N Secretary- General’s High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change. This did not stop her career from growing, she went on to become more and more all serving the people as she had vowed to herself when she was a teenager.
