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8 March, 2010
Partnerships for Women's Health: Striving for Best Practice within the UN Global Compact
On the occasion of International Women's Day, the United Nations University Office at the UN, New York (UNU-ONY) is organizing a panel discussion related to the book entitled Partnerships for Women's Health: Striving for Best Practices within the UN Global Compact.
Every minute, at least one woman dies from pregnancy and childbirth complications and twenty suffer injury, infection or disease. Despite medical advances, and years of national and international policy declarations, this tragic situation remains particularly severe in developing countries, violating a fundamental human right. This book draws together insights and experiences of development practitioners, policy-makers, academic experts and private sector partners to describe the Women's Health Initiative (WHI). A public private partnership based in India, the WHI took a new approach to solving the apparently intractable problem of poor women's health. In line with the WHI's ambition to grow and become transferable to other contexts, these standards can inform and shape more effective public private partnerships in the future.
UNU-ONY's Worldwide in New York series showcases the recent work of UNU Research and Training Centers/Programs (UNU-RTC/Ps) from around the world. In conjunction with other experts from different organizations, UNU researchers share new ideas and highlight new policy avenues in the areas of security, environment and development.
Panelists
Martina Timmermann, Vice President and Managing Director for International Projects at TIMA International GmbH.
Monika Kruesmann, former Assistant Director in the Australian Government Department of Education.
Moderator
Jean-Marc Coicaud, Director of the United Nations University at the United Nations Office in New York.
Watch the video from UNU Video Portal
Background Readings:
- Partnerships for Women's Health: Striving for Best Practices within the UN Global Compact
- Special Issue:UNU-WIDER Special Issue on Health and Development.
- Making the MDGs Work Better for Women
- Together We Must! End Violence against Women and Girls and HIV & AIDS
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Martina Timmermann joined the Transition and Integration Management Agency (TIMA, est. 1996) as Vice President and Managing Director of International Projects in 2008. TIMA has been an active member of the UN Global Compact since 2006. Prior to that, from 2004-2007, Dr. Timmermann served as Director of Studies on Human Rights and Ethics at the United Nations University Headquarters in Tokyo and Bonn. In 2006, she was one of the leading organizers of International Women's Day in Tokyo, with UNU and 18 other UN agencies.
Next to her human rights related UNU project on women's health in India, and her project on the UN human rights special procedures (2007), she managed and co-edited (together with Jitsuo Tsuchiyama, Vice President of Aoyama Gakuin University) the book Institutionalizing Northeast Asia: Regional Steps towards Global Governance, published by UNU Press in November 2008. Her single authored book chapter "EU-Asian human rights policies: Pursuing the Path of Institutionalism", in a volume by Juergen Rueland et. al., Asian-European Relations: Building Blocks for Global Governance (Routledge 2008), was recommended by the library of the German parliament.
Before joining UNU, from 2000-2003, Dr. Timmermann served as project director of a research project on Regional Identity Building in Southeast Asia and Japan with case studies analyzing the impact of UN World Conferences on the implementation of national and regional policies for strengthening women's rights, for fighting the commercial sexual abuse of children, and for sustainability. The project, conducted at the Institute of Asian Affairs in Hamburg, Germany, was awarded to her by the prestigious German Research Association (DFG). It resulted in several (German) publications on the rights of women and children in Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. In 2002, Dr. Timmermann also served as one of the two German representatives at the ASEM track-II conference on "Women in Economic and Political Decision-Making", held in Tampere, Finland.
From 1994-1999, Dr. Timmermann was teaching as research fellow/assistant professor at the Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy, University of Trier. Beyond her teaching obligations, she was elected President of the group of research fellows/assistant and associate professors, their speaker in the university's senate and Trier University's delegate to the state commission of Rhineland-Palatinate on university reform.
In 1998, she received her doctorate degree from Ruhr-University Bochum, Faculty of Asian Studies, for a study in comparative politics, titled "The Power of Collective Thought Patterns: Values, Change and Political Culture in Japan and the United States of America", published in German in 2000. For her PhD -research which she also conducted at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, from 1993-1994, and as special associate at the Harvard University's US-Japan Program and Reischauer Institute in summer 1995, she was awarded a research scholarship by the Japanese-European Special Exchange Programme (SEP).
Beyond her professional activities, Dr Timmermann currently serves as German VP of the American-German Business Club, Bonn e.V., and as Executive Board Member of the German-Malaysian Society e.V.
Monika Kruesmannhas worked for the Australian Government as Assistant Director in a series of policy and programme positions focusing on education, social development and employment, and Parliamentary functioning and governance. In these positions she has had carriage of major national education initiatives, and managed Parliamentary inquiries into legislation on a range of high-profile issues.
She has worked and studied in Europe, Asia and the Pacific region, including as a student of the UN University in Tokyo. In 2006 she was selected as a national delegate to the inaugural Emerging Pacific Leaders' Dialogue, and took part in an intensive study tour examining development, governance and human rights in Pacific countries. Also in 2006, Ms Kruesmann spent time in northern India working as a volunteer on community development and social rehabilitation projects.
Ms Kruesmann is a member of the Editorial Board of 'Millennium', the London School of Economics' respected journal of international relations, as well as being a Book Review Editor for the same publication.
Ms Kruesmann holds a Master of Arts (International Relations) from the Australian National University, and is currently a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics, where she is supported by a fellowship to research the interaction between sovereign legitimacy and corporate citizenship projects in developing countries.
Jean Marc Coicaud is the Director of the United Nations University (UNU) Office at the United Nations in New York. He was Senior Academic Officer at the UNU in Tokyo from 1996 to 2003. Before joining UNU, he served in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General as a speechwriter for Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1992-1996). A former fellow at Harvard University (Center for International Affairs, Department of Philosophy and Harvard Law School, from 1986 to 1992), Coicaud has held appointments such as Cultural Attaché with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Legislative Aide with the European Parliament (Financial Committee), Associate Professor at the University of Paris, Visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure-Ulm in Paris and Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management. He has also taught at the New School for Social Research (New York). He has been a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (Washington, D.C.) and a Global Research Fellow at New York University School of Law. Coicaud holds a Ph.D. in political science-law from the Sorbonne and a Doctorat d'Etat in philosophy from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris. In addition, he holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in literature and linguistics. Jean-Marc Coicaud is a member of the Advisory Board of Carnegie Council's Global Policy Innovations (New York). He also serves as an adviser for the Fondation pour l'Innovation Politique (Paris). Dr. Coicaud has published 14 books in the fields of comparative politics, political and legal theory, international relations and international law. They are available in English, French, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish and Arabic, and include the following single-authored books: Politics and Legitimacy: A Contribution to the Study of Political Right and Political Responsibility (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Beyond the National Interest (United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007), Kokuren no Genkai/Kokuren no Mirai (Future of the UN/Limits of the UN - Fujiwara Shoten, 2007), Mai Xiang Guo Ji Fa Zhi (Towards the International Rule of Law - Sanlian Shudian, 2008). His latest book, co-edited with Hilary Charlesworth, is Fault Lines of International Legitimacy (Cambridge University Press, 2009).Jean-Marc Coicaud is now finishing two new single-authored books, Kissing War Goodbye, and Knowledge and International Institutions.
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