97 reacties op dit onderwerp

[Maxima]

Wat ziet Laurentien er erg uit... Die haarband. Margriet ziet er zoveel mooier uit... k Vind Astrid er trouwens ook niet heel geweldig uitzien.

[stephanie]

Fotoreeks Isopix

[stephanie]

Ik vind Margriet en Astrid (uitgezonderd die schoenen) leuk uitzien.
Laurentien niet echt mijn smaak.

[stephanie]

Nog een filmpje van de NOS
Margriet reikt cultuurprijs uit

[prinses Louise]

Oef, de outfit van Laurentien...is dat schrikken


Prinsessenplaatje

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[S175]

Wat ziet Laurentien er erg uit... Die haarband. Margriet ziet er zoveel mooier uit... k Vind Astrid er trouwens ook niet heel geweldig uitzien.

Margriet ziet er inderdaad heel mooi uit, dat vind ik ook!
En de haarband vind ik niet mooi aan de outfit van Laurentien, verder vind ik het wel bij haar passen...
Astrid vind ik er ook helemaal niet mooi uit zien, de kleuren groen vind ik geen mooie combi samen!
Wel leuk om de dames samen op stap te zien!

[Someone]

De toespraak van Laurentien (in het Engels):

Your Royal Highnesses, Vice-President Mrs Kroes, Excellencies,
distinguished Laureates and friends,

We are delighted that you are all with us today for 4th ECF Princess Margriet Award celebration. We celebrate European artists and thinkers who share their personal insights about Europe and European societies. In particular, we celebrate two 'beacons of cultural excellence' whose work stimulates conversations with our pasts and fuels our thinking for the future. Laureates Charles Esche and John Akomfrah help visualise dreams, nightmares, realities, existence, past and future. You offer insights into the lives of people who make up our societies - citizens in general, and specifically women, prostitutes, minorities and migrants … You share your knowledge, push boundaries and generate images of who we are and who we might become.

There are many visions for Europe. But for people to connect and feel its relevance and added value, we need more than visions - we need to visualize where we want to go and be. We need to tell Europe's stories, like you, our laureates and artists do. This requires more discipline and boldness than stating a vision: you actually need to be able to describe with real imagery what it is that you see and want. Instead of using abstract notions we need to be able to see, touch and feel what Europe is about. And there is so much we can see, touch and feel about Europe!

Take 'cultural diversity', which is mere policy jargon to an average European. But he can taste the tapas from Spain and the smorebrod in Denmark; admire the art of Hockney, Richter and Degas; sail the canals of Bruges, Venice and Amsterdam; join a hackathon of IT wiz kids in Valencia and Berlin.

Or take 'peace and stability', which is at the core of European integration. It may also seem like an abstract concept. But isn't peace and stability about taking the young people to the graves of our past? Getting a sense of what they think and feel when walking through Auschwitz, and the trenches of Verdun; looking down on the beaches of Normandy and travelling through the Balkans?

Visualizing Europe is about understanding what it was, what it is and what we want it to be. We should ask ourselves, is the European story about grey suits lined up for 'the family photo' inside equally grey buildings, about procedures and summits? Or do we want it to be about connected people, about students moving around and people getting married across borders and boundaries? Isn't Europe about young entrepreneurs innovating and exploiting their talents, and about the elderly finding their way to the internet to connect with their grandchildren?

To put it in the words of Alfred Montapert, author of The Supreme Philosophy of Man: "To accomplish great things we must first dream and visualize, then plan, believe and act." If we want to visualize the future, which is by definition unknown, we need to dare to freely question the status quo. That's what you, our laureates, do in your own, very distinct, ways; by sharing your personal perspectives on society; by analysing people and their motivations and by bringing together such different perspectives.

We cannot question the status quo without engaging in some kind of dialogue - be it with ourselves or with others. And vice versa: "interesting conversations often involve some form of questioning", to quote the van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. This is particularly the case now, at a time where we all feel we live in a time of flux and transition - be in the way we interact with each other; how we use our natural resources, or in our perspectives on freedom and our role in the world.

We as people, and societies, are constantly in flux, which is almost by definition unsettling. Why? Because change challenges notions of ourselves: it forces us to look in the mirror. Who are we? What interests and values do we share? Europe of today, let alone that of tomorrow and the day after, will differ from yesterday's. So to keep moving ahead, we need to keep on visualising where we want to be.

Culture offers a space for such engagement; a space of connection and intersection; of harmony and at the same time disruption. It provides a shared space where both differences and commonalities are visualised, to trigger dialogue. Culture brings fresh and unexpected perspectives to seemingly 'non-cultural' issues, from global warming to the economic downturn; from interaction between people of different backgrounds to the feat that such interaction may have a negative impact on one's own life...

Artists may not offer solutions to such issues, but their insights might stimulate new and fresh thinking, about our challenges and possible solutions.

We need to seek the right balance between the search for a shared visions and visualisations and continuously questioning of the status quo. And this balance is precisely what can help keep citizens engaged. This is of course crucial for a healthy development of Europe.

That most of us - especially young people - take Europe for granted should be seen as a major success. But the Europe we have today is still young and will not last if we do not continue to build, invest in and visualize our future. This is where I see a critical role for culture and arts. This is also where the roots of the European Cultural Foundation lie: almost 60 years ago, ECF's founders envisaged cultural expression to be a unifying force for Europe. Today there is much need, room and scope for such cultural storytelling, as we live in a world that is all about visual images.


Now is the time to have the courage to visualize and speak up. Europe is its citizens, and its citizens are Europe. It's an open door, but our future is too important to merely delegate to grey suits and summits. Our future is a responsibility we share. And there we have the choice between "should share" and "want to share"…..Or, as Charles Esche once said, the question is not who we should be, but who we want to be.

I would like to congratulate the laureates once again. And on behalf of everyone at the European Cultural Foundation, I wish you all a delightful evening, with many inspiring and memorable encounters and conversations.

Thank you.

Bron: koninklijk huis

[Maxima]

Malariabestrijding - Bezoek in Singapore en in Indonesië


Op 11 april 2012 neemt Prinses Astrid, Speciaal Vertegenwoordiger van het Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnerschap voor de strijd tegen malaria in de wereld, deel aan het "World Congress of Muslim Phil
Van 10 tot 12 april 2012 begeeft Prinses Astrid, Speciaal Vertegenwoordiger van het Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnerschap voor de strijd tegen malaria in de wereld, zich naar Singapore. Het accent van haar verblijf wordt gelegd op het onderzoek in de strijd tegen malaria. De Prinses begeeft zich nadien naar Indonesië van 12 tot 15 april, waar zij terreinbezoeken uitvoert in gezelschap van lokale autoriteiten en vertegenwoordigers van het RBM Partnerschap. In beide landen heeft Prinses Astrid ook officiële ontmoetingen.

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[stephanie]

Prinses Astrid, Speciaal Vertegenwoordiger van het Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnerschap voor de strijd tegen malaria in de wereld, begeeft zich naar New York ter gelegenheid van de werelddag tegen malaria. Ze neemt er deel aan meerdere vergaderingen op hoog niveau. 's Avonds neemt Prinses Astrid deel aan een receptie op de zetel van de Verenigde Naties. Tijdens deze receptie eert Secretaris-generaal Ban Ki-Moon haar inzet ten voordele van het RBM Partnerschap en haar actie in de strijd tegen malaria.

Het Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnerschap is het wereldwijd kader voor een gecoördineerde actie tegen malaria. Het is een publiek-private partnerschap dat de politiek aanmoedigt tot een verbintenis. RBM spant zich in om initiatieven de harmoniseren en te vermeerderen, om er voor te zorgen dat malaria een prioriteit blijft op de internationale agenda. RBM werd gesticht door UNICEF, de Wereld Gezondheidsorganisatie (WHO), de Wereldbank en het Ontwikkelingsprogramma van de Verenigde Naties (UNDP) en wordt door meer dan 500 partnerorganisaties ondersteund met expertise, middelen en dienstverlening. RBM stippelt de richtlijnen uit, geeft financiële en technische steun aan landen en volgt de vooruitgang op met betrekking tot de universele doelstellingen in verband met malaria. De werelddag tegen malaria vindt elk jaar plaats op 25 april.

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[stephanie]

Ban Ki-moon, de secretaris-generaal van de Verenigde Naties, zal op 23 april prinses Astrid van België een prijs overhandigen voor haar inzet in de strijd tegen malaria. Dat heeft Hervé Verhoosel, verantwoordelijke voor externe relaties bij het partnerschap Roll Back Malaria (RBM), donderdag bekendgemaakt. Het partnerschap is het wereldwijde kader voor een gecoördineerde actie tegen malaria.

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[Josephina]

Bedankt Stephanie voor deze mededeling.
Hopelijk komen er daarvan ook foto's.

[stephanie]

"De prinses is onze Goodwill Ambassador sinds 2007, ze is enorm begaan met haar opdracht. De afgelopen jaren vertolkte ze de stem van het Roll Back Malaria Partnership in vele delen van de wereld. Prinses Astrid legt een pleidooi van hoog niveau aan de dag. Haar motivatie en overtuigingskracht zijn een voorbeeld voor ons allemaal ". Aan het woord is Herve Verhoosel, directeur buitenlandse betrekkingen bij Roll Back Malaria

De Secretaris-Generaal wil persoonlijk deze prijs overhandigen in de naam van alle partners die werkzaam zijn in de strijd tegen deze ziekte.

Prinses Astrid, Speciaal Vertegenwoordiger van het Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnerschap in New York van 23 tot 25 april

[stephanie]

Bedankt Stephanie voor deze mededeling.
Hopelijk komen er daarvan ook foto's.

Ik denk dat ze wel foto's van zullen verschijnen.

[stephanie]

Toespraak van Prinses Astrid - Malariabestrijding - Singapour

Good afternoon, and thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak to you on a subject of the utmost importance. Malaria is important to me because I find it unacceptable that so many people suffer and die from a disease which can be completely prevented and treated. Malaria is one of the key Millennium Development Goals which the United Nations want to achieve by 2015.
It is therefore also a global responsibility.
By making the fight against malaria a priority, we can help to eliminate a disease that affects millions around the world and costs billions of dollars in healthcare and lost productivity. When we prevent malaria infection, we not only save lives, but we accelerate progress in other health and development issues : the fight against poverty, lower school absenteeism, better maternal and child health. Health is the building block of all development, and when we invest in malaria, we invest in communities.
Our progress proves that when we invest in malaria, the return is high and the cost is low. The simple, proven tools to prevent and treat malaria represent some of the
most cost-effective health interventions of our time. Solutions such as insecticide-treated mosquito nets or indoor spraying have the potential to lift entire generations out of poverty.
But major challenges remain.
Despite progress, malaria still kills nearly 700,000 people a year, including one child every minute. Asia accounts for the second highest malaria burden, outside of Africa. Unfortunately, we also face enormous financial gaps and emerging resistance to antimalarial drugs. The anti-malaria campaign may therefore suffer a setback and some of the gains we achieved may be lost.
But the work being conducted here, at N.U.S., gives me hope. I am impressed to see your innovative research which leads to a better understanding of this disease and to new methods for combatting it. New drugs and antimalarial tools are of critical importance. This University is a crucial partner in the fight against malaria. I congratulate you on your work and thank you for your leadership in developing the next generation of tools that will help communities triumph over this disease.
Those of us who are deeply committed to the combat against malaria, need the support of new partners. May I add that philanthropy stands to play an enormous role in our investment. We need you to maintain our commitment for existing tools,
but also to increase investment in research and development.
Thank you very much for anything you can do to help the National University of Singapore and the Roll Back Malaria Partnership in their efforts. Your support, and your dedication to the fight against malaria, make all the difference.

Monarchie

[Ilse]

Foto's:
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[stephanie]

Leuk dat er toch foto's zijn verschenen.;
Bekende outfitt, ze ziet er mooi uit.

[stephanie]

Toespraak van Prinses Astrid - Malariabestrijding - Indonesië
Mr. Vice President,
Mr Vice-Minister of Health,
Excellencies,
Honorable Guests,

The fight against malaria is recognized by the United Nations as one of the key Millennium Development Goals.
Fighting this devastating disease is therefore a global responsibility.
Your country, Indonesia, takes its own responsibility in this global effort.
With the world's fourth biggest population and as a leading Asian nation, Indonesia joins the UN in helping to achieve, by 2015, the Millennium Development Goals.
I am delighted to be in Jakarta this evening for the launch of your national partnership forum. And I congratulate you for this important initiative.
As Special Representative for the global Roll Back Malaria Partnership, I am sensitive to the effect malaria has on the world's most vulnerable - pregnant women and children.
It disrupts communities and wrecks lives.
It costs governments and societies billions of dollars in healthcare costs and lost productivity. Health is the building block of all development, and when we invest in fighting malaria, we invest in communities.
Mr. Vice President, Mr Vice-Minister :
This meeting today is evidence of your investment in the future generations of your beautiful country.
Partnerships are powerful, and I believe they have never been more important than in the fight against malaria.
No single government or organization can overcome this powerful killer but together, when we join our efforts, I really believe we can do it.
We are supported in this belief by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who is a fervent advocate of the importance of partnerships for development.
We must continue working hand in hand, to bring hope to communities and to fight malaria in even the most remote areas.
I'm excited, therefore, to visit Bandar Lampung later this week and to see with my own eyes the great work being done by your own health workers and your authorities,
in partnership with the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the Global Fund.
During my travels with the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, I have seen the power of simple solutions like insecticide-treated nets, indoor spraying with insecticides, accurate diagnostics and appropriate treatments.
These tools help to fight poverty, reduce school absenteeism and improve maternal and child health.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
While global funding for malaria reached very high levels in 2010, there is still a gap of $3.2 billion dollars. Additionally, we face the very real threat of resistance to antimalarial drugs, that puts at risk all the gains we have achieved so far.
It is clear, therefore, that we are at a critical stage in the fight against malaria.
I am confident that Indonesia will show global leadership in the fight against malaria,
by placing this issue at the top of the agenda of ASEAN, the G-20 and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
We also need Indonesia's help in promoting the plan of the World Health Organization
to prevent resistance to anti-malaria medicine.
Now more than ever, we must work together to maximize the effectiveness of our efforts.
This Forum, Mr Vice-President, is a wonderful example of partnership and cooperation.
I thank your country for your bold commitment to our joint cause.
Thank you for your attention.

Monarchie

[stephanie]

Prinses Astrid in Jakarta

Belga
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[Ilse]

Foto's van vandaag:
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http://news.daylife.... april 13, 2012

[Maxima]

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