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UNITED NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com,
UN/ - October 2006 ---- Dr.
Nafis Sadik, a national of Pakistan, is Special
Adviser to the UN Secretary-General and his
Special Envoy
for HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific,
with the rank of Under-Secretary-General.
Educated at She
served her internship in gynaecology and
obstetrics at She was Pakistan's Director-General of the Central Family Planning Council responsible for developing, preparing and evaluating the country's health and family planning programme as part of the nation's development plan. In
1971,
she joined the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
serving in various capacities until her
appointment as its Executive Director in 1987.
Dr. Sadik retired in December 2000.
On her appointment, Dr. Sadik was one of the highest ranking women in the UN system and marked the first time in the history of the United Nations, that a woman was appointed to head one of its major voluntarily-funded programmes. She is well-known for her dynamism and guiding force in the field of international maternal and child health, reproductive and sexual health, including family planning. Under
her able leadership as Secretary-General of the
landmark International Conference on Population
and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo in 1994,
the approach to reproductive health which
includes empowering women through education and
economic opportunity, was unanimously agreed to
by the international community. Her many international awards and honours include her selection as the Laureate, in the individual category, of the United Nations Population Award 2001, for her outstanding contribution to the awareness of population issues; an award presented by His Excellency President Soeharto for her participation in developing the family planning programme in Indonesia; an award from the Government of Pakistan for her contribution in the field of medicine; the 1995 Prince Mahidol Award; the Bruno H. Schubert-Stiftung Prize, 1995, for her outstanding and excellent contribution in the field of population; Order of Merit (First Class) decreed by His Excellency President Hosni Mubarak of the Arab Republic of Egypt in recognition of her efforts in the field of population and development and in the successful carrying out of the ICPD, 1994; the Hugh Moore Award for her leadership in the family planning field; 1993 International Award from the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NEPHRA); the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood Federation of America; the Martha May Eliot Award from APHA; the FIGO Recognition Award for Social Contribution to Women’s Health; and the ”Hilal-I-Imtiaz” Award from the Government of Pakistan. She
is the recipient of honorary degrees from In 2003, Dr. Sadik was designated as UNFPA’s Goodwill Ambassador for Obstetric Fistula. She served as a member of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, and is currently a member of the Secretary-General’s High-Level Group on "Alliance of Civilizations”. She
is a Commissioner of the Global
Commission on International Migration, a member
of the International Task Force on Global Public
Goods, and a Trustee of International HIV/AIDS
In
addition, Dr. Sadik participates as a Board
member of the UN Foundation, the In
August 2006, the Executive Committee of the
Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA)
selected Dr. Sadik as the recipient of the 2006
Defender of Democracy Award in recognition of
her significant life-long contribution to
addressing women’s rights and sexual and
reproductive health rights.
The Award presentation will take place in
Dr.
Sadik is married to Azhar Sadik, businessman
(retired). They
have three children and two adopted children.
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