Gender Equity

Three Stories Out of the Unheard Millions, by Eman Jawed (Advocacy Council Member) In surgical corridors around the world, there is a kind of work that never appears on an operative note or a training logbook. It does not get counted in publications, nor does it fit into the tidy boxes of “service” or “education.” It is invisible, emotional, physical, moral , and overwhelmingly carried by women . It is the labour that keeps global surgery running, even when it breaks the women who provide...

By Ala Nazir, DEJ lead 2025-26 In global health spaces, we are taught ‘ Think Global, Act Local .’ It sounds right. It reminds us that meaningful impact begins at home. When I first learned how prevalent female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C) is in other countries, my instinct was to check my own region. My local . What I found unsettled me. Not only because it was present, but because it was present in a way that was almost designed to evade attention. Hidden in plain sight. Written in...

by Dr Ala Nazir, MD - GEIGS DEJ Lead Labour and delivery has a momentum you can sense even before you step inside. By the time we arrived for pre-rounds, the ward was already full: about fifteen women on examination tables and another twenty in the waiting room. Their families clustered just beyond the entrance, talking among themselves, settling in for the long hours ahead. Most travel from distant areas to tertiary care centres, carrying exhaustion, patience, and a kind of unspoken trust....