Nafis Sadik
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 5, 2017
The death on June 4 of Babatunde Osotimehin, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, and a Nigerian, was not only a personal tragedy and a shock to the staff of the fund but also another blow…
- Categories: Africa, GOINGS-ON, Health and Population, UN Agencies
- Barbara Crossette
- • November 12, 2016
Louise Fréchette, a Canadian, was the first United Nations deputy secretary-general. Appointed by Kofi Annan, she took office in March 1998, bringing to the job qualifications that exceeded those of most UN secretaries-general. She had spent a quarter-century in…
- Categories: General Assembly, US-UN Relations, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 20, 2016
In the political annals of New York, the 1990s boasted a strong presence of women not only in government but also at the United Nations. One such woman, Ruth Messinger, served as Manhattan borough president from 1990 to 1998,…
- Categories: Development, Gender Violence, SDGs, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 31, 2015
On the eve of a speech Ruchira Gupta was to give on International Women’s Day in New York as the recipient of a Woman of Distinction award, she got a strange email. Gupta, who has collected numerous awards for…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Poverty, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • July 1, 2013
In the global annals of women’s rights defenders over the last half century, Nafis Sadik’s name will always rank high, though little may be known about her among the broad American public, focused as it usually is on Western…
- Categories: Health and Population, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • May 23, 2013
After years in the shadows, and under attack from left and right, a campaign to put action into the demand that every woman should have the right to contraception is finally gaining momentum — or regaining the central role…
- Categories: Health and Population, Women
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