Champion of choice [electronic resource] : the life and legacy of women's advocate Nafis Sadik / Cathleen Miller.
Miller, Cathleen.
2013
HQ1745.5.Z75 S236 2013eb
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Title Champion of choice [electronic resource] : the life and legacy of women's advocate Nafis Sadik / Cathleen Miller.
Author Miller, Cathleen.
ISBN 9780803246836 (electronic book)
9780803211049
Imprint Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 496 p.) : ill.
Call Number HQ1745.5.Z75 S236 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.42092 B
Summary Biography of the world's foremost advocate for women's health and reproductive rights and the first female director of a United Nations agency. An obstetrician, wife, mother, and devout Muslim, Sadik has been a courageous and tireless advocate for women, insisting on discussing the difficult issues that impact their lives: education, contraception, abortion, as well as rape and other forms of violence. After Sadik joined the fledgling UN Population Fund in 1971, her groundbreaking strategy for providing females with education and the tools to control their own fertility has dramatically influenced the global birthrate. This book is the first to examine Sadik's contribution to history and the unconventional methods she has employed to go head-to-head with world leaders to improve millions of women's lives. Interspersed between the chapters recounting Sadik's life are vignettes of females around the globe who represent her campaign against domestic abuse, child marriage, genital mutilation, and other human rights violations.
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Birth
Welcoming the girls
Azhar
Karachi
The wedding
Doctor's orders
Mothers
Family planning
The UN
The director
The Vatican
Cairo
Beijing
Back home
On the ground
Onward.

Zadia Birru, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Nargis Ansari, Bhanwargarh, India
Chanti Prattipati, Berkeley, United States
Dora Chemenu, Manhea, Ghana
Angela Karogo, Narok, Kenya
Rubima Javed, Tetral, Pakistan
Natasha Bankov, St. Petersburg, Russia
Vianca Ivonne Huerta Garcia, Mexico City, Mexico
Ermelinda da Silva Ximenes, Tibar, East Timor
Juliana Di Tullio, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Teresa Lanza, La Paz, Bolivia
Mona Daoud, Cairo, Egypt
Wang Lijuan, Beijing, China
Sevdie Ahmeti, Pristina, Kosovo
Jintana Dahkling, Bangkok, Thailand.

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