An obstetrician, she led a groundbreaking effort to put women’s rights to control all aspects of their lives at the heart of the global population debate.
Dr. Nafis Sadik, a Pakistani obstetrician who as a top United Nations official ensured that women’s rights — not least the right to choose whether to get pregnant — were at the heart of the global population debate, died on Sunday at her home in Manhattan. She was 92.
The death was confirmed by her son, Omar Sadik.
Dr. Sadik made her most lasting mark as the architect and chief promoter of a broad plan to curb population growth around the world, which 179 countries adopted at a U.N. conference in Cairo in 1994.
