UNITED NATIONS (AP) Nafis Sadik, a Pakistani doctor who championed women’s health and rights and spearheaded the breakthrough action plan adopted by 179 countries at the 1994 United Nations population conference, died four days before her 93rd birthday, her son said late Monday.
Sadik became the architect of groundbreaking U.N. action that recognized for the first time that women have the right to control their reproductive and sexual health.
Nafis Sadik, a doctor who championed women’s health and rights and spearheaded a breakthrough action plan at the 1994 U.N. population conference, has died. She was 92. Sadik served an internship in gynecology and obstetrics at City Hospital in Baltimore and continued her medical education at the Johns Hopkins University.