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UNITED NATIONS — Nafis 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, ...

Former New York City transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan argued on behalf of what she called “car-free cities” to combat climate change while appearing on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” Sunday.

Three years since Janette Sadik-Khan left her post as the city’s commissioner of Transportation, what has her ruinous tampering with historic traffic patterns wrought? If you believe Sadik-Khan’s new ...

Our reviewer hard at work. This is a guest post by Kiel Johnson. A specter is haunting our cities — the specter of street life! Our streets make up the vast majority of our public space in cities. How ...

Nafis Sadik, an obstetrician-gynecologist who in 1987 became the first woman to direct a United Nations agency — the U.N. Population Fund — and was widely regarded as one of the most effective ...

Sadik-Khan during her talk last night. (Photos: J. Maus/BikePortland) Janette Sadik-Khan brought her Streetfight book tour to Portland last night and provided her throngs of fans with a dose of ...

If you are an urban design buff — or even someone who has been just casually paying attention to New York City's transformation into a pedestrian haven in recent years — you probably are familiar with ...

The first time DUMBO developer Jed Walentas spoke to Janette Sadik-Khan, she “screamed” at him, or so he recalls. Walentas was asking for help with a street rebuilding project. “So I picked up the ...

Sadik (pictured in 2010) insisted on adding other topics to the platform for debate, issues rarely discussed at an international conference filled with diplomats: rape, incest, and female genital ...