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Nafis Sadik, women’s health and rights champion, dies at 92

FILE - Nafis Sadik, Pakistani candidate to the post of World Health Organization director general, briefs the media after her presentation at the WHO Executive Board at Geneva, Switzerland, on Jan. 26, 1998. Sadik, a Pakistani doctor who championed women's health and rights and spearheaded the breakthrough action plan adopted by 179 countries at the 1994 U.N. population conference, died four days before her 93rd birthday, her son said late Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. Omar Sadik said his mother died of natural causes at her home in New York on Sunday night. (AP Photo/Donald Stampfli, File) FILE - Pakistan's Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, left, talks to Nafis Sadik, special representative of UNAID for Asia Pacific during an inaugural session of the first Asia/Pacific Women, Girl and HIV/AIDS Best Practices Conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Nov 29, 2004. Sadik, a Pakistani doctor who championed women's health and rights and spearheaded the breakthrough action plan adopted by 179 countries at the 1994 U.N. population conference, died four days before her 93rd birthday, her son said late Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. Omar Sadik said his mother died of natural causes at her home in New York on Sunday night. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File) FILE - American Actress Linda Gray, left, talks with Nafis Sadik, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund, after a U.N. news conference on Jan. 20, 1998. Sadik, a Pakistani doctor who championed women's health and rights and spearheaded the breakthrough action plan adopted by 179 countries at the 1994 U.N. population conference, died four days before her 93rd birthday, her son said late Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. Omar Sadik said his mother died of natural causes at her home in New York on Sunday night. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) FILE - Nafis Sadik, Pakistani candidate to the post of World Health Organization director general, briefs the media after her presentation at the WHO Executive Board at Geneva, Switzerland, on Jan. 26, 1998. Sadik, a Pakistani doctor who championed women's health and rights and spearheaded the breakthrough action plan adopted by 179 countries at the 1994 U.N. population conference, died four days before her 93rd birthday, her son said late Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. Omar Sadik said his mother died of natural causes at her home in New York on Sunday night. (AP Photo/Donald Stampfli, File)
Nafis Sadik, women’s health and rights champion, dies at 92