{"id":49798,"date":"2018-06-07T11:42:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T15:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/?p=49798"},"modified":"2018-07-18T15:41:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T19:41:21","slug":"her-majesty-queen-mathilde-of-the-belgians-speaks-at-opening-of-european-development-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2018\/06\/her-majesty-queen-mathilde-of-the-belgians-speaks-at-opening-of-european-development-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Her Majesty Queen Mathilde of the Belgians Speaks at Opening of European Development Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Her Majesty Queen Mathilde of the Belgians delivered an address at the opening of the 2018 European Development Days (EDD) in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>In her speech, the Queen focused on mental health, and its importance to the development and the 2030 Agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Her Majesty noted that mental health is a crucial building block for many of the SDGs, and is essential in the fight against poverty, quality education, decent work, and economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>Queen Mathilde also implored those present to remember that the SDGs promise to leave no-one behind, and pay particular attention to the most vulnerable in society. Delivering better outcomes on mental health, particularly for women, girls, and young people is therefore key.<\/p>\n<p>A video of Her Majesty\u2019s speech can be viewed here: <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/avservices\/video\/player.cfm?ref=I156636\">http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/avservices\/video\/player.cfm?ref=I156636<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her Majesty Queen Mathilde of the Belgians delivered an address  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":49801,"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":[5507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sdg-advocates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49798","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=49798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}