{"id":19289,"date":"2016-07-12T16:21:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T16:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=19289"},"modified":"2018-04-22T11:58:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T15:58:33","slug":"queen-mathilde-of-the-belgians-visits-the-un-meets-with-experts-on-mental-health-and-youth-and-addresses-human-rights-meeting-with-alaa-murabit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2016\/07\/queen-mathilde-of-the-belgians-visits-the-un-meets-with-experts-on-mental-health-and-youth-and-addresses-human-rights-meeting-with-alaa-murabit\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Mathilde of the Belgians visits the UN, meets with experts on mental health and youth, and addresses human rights meeting with Alaa Murabit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Her Majesty Mathilde, the Queen of the Belgians and SDG Advocate, attended a number of events during the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. She delivered the opening speech at the side-event (11 July) devoted to \u2018Children affected by armed conflict\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>There is a need to focus on \u201can often forgotten aspect of children affected by armed conflict: their reintegration and rehabilitation,\u201d she remarked.<\/p>\n<p>She then delivered a keynote speech at the opening session of the High Level Political Forum on \u2018Human Rights and Development\u2019\u2014at which fellow SDG Advocate Alaa Murabit served as a panellist\u2014and participated in a dialogue session initiated by Assistant-Secretary-General Thomas Gass on \u2018Youth and Mental Health\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-overflow:visible;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\">[A]ddressing mental health needs is especially critical in times of crisis and recovery, as well as for sustainable development,\u201d she said during the dialogue. \u201cWe are all witness to the growing number of conflicts, crises and catastrophes, all of which add to people\u2019s stress and mental instability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her public engagements, the Queen held separate meetings with Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, UNGA Chairman Mogens Lykketoft, SRSG Leila Zerroughi (Children in armed conflict), SRSG Marta Santos Pais (Violence against Children), and\u00a0 Executive Director Anthony Lake (UNICEF).<div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her Majesty Mathilde, the Queen of the Belgians and SDG Advocate, attended a number of events during the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. She delivered the opening speech at the side-event (11 July) devoted to \u2018Children affected by armed conflict\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-sdg-advocates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}