Crown Princess Mary's Visit to Ethiopia: February 16-18, 2015


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CP Mary and the Danish Minister for trade and development will visit Ethiopia, February 16-18. Subjects: women's health and enpowerment and circumsion
 
Crown Princess set to visit Ethiopia

Girl and women's health and rights to be focus of trip... cphpost.dk article

Ethiopia: Crown Princess Mary of Denmark to Visit Ethiopia Next Week
Allafrica.com
 
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Mary travels together with our Minister for Trade and Development, Mogens Jensen (who both Mary and Frederik works closely with on foreign working visits and official visits.)

They left yesterday evening. Mogens Jensen wrote last night at 7:50 pm on his Facebook profile:

"On this Sunday, I have no great desire to leave our country. But as the Prime Minister said we must continue to live and work as before. We must not allow ourselves to be cowed. Together with the Crown Princess I will now travel to Africa to focus on women's rights. No one should stop the fight for equality and freedom - either at home or abroad."
https://www.facebook.com/mogensjensen/posts/1030971273582881

It takes about 10+ hours to fly from Copenhagen to Ethiopia so they must have landed and started their visit. Their working visits are always very well covered, but I think the coverage of this three-day visit will naturally be less due to the coverage if what happened in Copenhagen this weekend. I also see we haven't received an official press program from the Court as usual so we can follow the different events during the days.

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Mary and Mogens Jensen arriving:
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Mary travels together with our Minister for Trade and Development, Mogens Jensen (who both Mary and Frederik works closely with on foreign working visits and official visits.)

They left yesterday evening. Mogens Jensen wrote last night at 7:50 pm on his Facebook profile:

"On this Sunday, I have no great desire to leave our country. But as the Prime Minister said we must continue to live and work as before. We must not allow ourselves to be cowed. Together with the Crown Princess I will now travel to Africa to focus on women's rights. No one should stop the fight for equality and freedom - either at home or abroad."
https://www.facebook.com/mogensjensen/posts/1030971273582881

A very strong message. One which I applaud
 
BB informs us more of Mary's and Minister Mogens Jensen's visit.

After a long flight lasting a total 14 hours from Copenhagen via Frankfurt to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and then on a domestic flight to the Gambella province Crown Princess Mary and Mogens Jensen began their first day in good form.

Picture and article:
Kronprinsesse Mary i Etiopien: Modtaget med sang i flygtningelejr | Billed Bladet

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More pictures and article:
http://royalista.com/84943/mary-is-welcomed-with-a-party-cake-in-ethiopia/
 
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Mary visited the refugee camp and the camp's volunteers as patron of the Danish Refugee Council. Yesterday, she and the Minister also attended meetings, but I don't think we will get pictures of that. Without a published program it's not easy to find out which events there are what og where. It's probably because this is more a working visit; to see and experience how things are going with their own eyes. Mary and Minister Mogens Jensen will both be key speakers at the professional conference next Tuesday in Copenhagen on women's rights.

Here's a BB video and a long information/article from yesterday, Day 1:
VIDEO: Kronprinsesse Marys gribende møde med Sydsudans flygtningebørn | Billed Bladet

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Day 2, today:

Crown Princess Mary of Denmark and Mogens Jensen sit for a conversation on FGM & Child Marriage in Afar, Ethiopia:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-CS-FiIAAATq4S.jpg:large

A great gallery from Royalista from yesterday:

Refugee children greet Mary with homemade gifts | Royalista
 
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There's a very hmmm....competent-looking PET (FET) in the background in one of the pics ;)

Yes, there are at least three of them. Two packing considerably heavier gear than usual. They are PET though, of that I'm almost 100 % certain. But it seems like there is an outer ring as well.
Probably very wise as the refugee camp is situated close to the border of Southern Sudan!
 
Yes, there are at least three of them. Two packing considerably heavier gear than usual. They are PET though, of that I'm almost 100 % certain. But it seems like there is an outer ring as well.
Probably very wise as the refugee camp is situated close to the border of Southern Sudan!
Yes, but I meant the very nicely built young man in the blue shirt....:whistling:
Maybe I should have written "competent"-looking....if you know what I mean.
 
Danish TV news are back with other news again and Mary's visit has just been in tonight's TV2 news. Maybe we will have a longer clip in the main evening news in about an hour.

Instead of a published detail program (as we are used to with the CP couple's visits) it seems that the court at this three days visit will publish an article about some of the activities that happened during the day instead. Maybe because it's more of a working visit or maybe it's because of security.

Here's the information the Court just has released of today's activities that has taken place:
H.K.H. Kronprinsessen besøger lokalsamfund i Afar-regionen - Kongehuset

And a gallery from the royal court (from yesterday, but will be updated...)
Besøg i Etiopien - Kongehuset
 
:previous: :flowers: Thanks.

A BT video: Se video: Kronprinsesse Mary og Mogens Jensen i Etiopien | Se video: Kronprinsesse Mary og Mogens Jensen i Etiopien - Royale | www.bt.dk

And gallery: http://www.bt.dk/udland/se-billederne-kronprinsse-mary-i-etiopien

More than 90 % of the women in the area have been circumcised and judging from a meeting Mary attended there is a lot of local unwillingness to change that tradition.
Some of the women have to walk several KM every day to fetch water and that means risk of being attacked and killed or simply being sexually assaulted.
Mary gave a brief interview on the TV2 news tonight telling about a woman she met in the refugee camp. A mother of four who also had to care for her mother or mother-in-law (that was unclear to Mary). The woman hadn't seen her husband for a very long time and she didn't know whether he was still alive.
 
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A longer clip from Mary and the Minister's visit was shown in the evening's main news tonight. Mary was interviewed briefly as well. Her Danish is superb. Maybe it will be put online... It's TV2 reporter Winnie Laursen who covers the visit (their working visits are usual covered well) so we may have a clip again at tomorrows news from the visits last day.

Pictures from today:
http://b.bimg.dk/node-images/309/8/1152x-u/8309679-kronprinsesse-mary-i-etiopien.jpg
http://a.bimg.dk/node-images/309/8/...tiopien-kronprinsesse-mary-og-handels--og.jpg


Thanks Polyesco. A long article from today's activities. Can your Google Translate translate it fairly correct?
 
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Thanks Polyesco. A long article from today's activities. Can your Google Translate translate it fairly correct?

yes. google translate does give me a good translation and a feel for the article.
Though i do appreciate you and Muhler's translations and insights. Especially from the videos:flowers:
 
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Here's the feature from the TV2 News yesterday evening:
Mary i etiopisk flygtningelejr: Det er stærke kvinder | Nyhederne.tv2.dk

The little girls and teens who get circumcised gets cut off both the clitoris and the labia and are then sewn together. Today is Mary and the Minister's last day.

Impressed by Mary's Danish. The way she speaks it and the speed is like a native Dane here.

Another video from BB from Day 2: Article as well.
VIDEO: Kronprinsesse Mary imponeret af teenagepiger i Etiopien | Billed Bladet
 
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I don't think this has been posted sorry if it has
Princess Mary makes humanitarian visit to Ethiopia | smh.com.au

Thanks Royal Rob. It's from Sydney Morning Herald so the message is spread around I see.

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Today, Day 3:
http://www.billedbladet.dk/kongelig...-dansede-med-voldsramte-kvinder-i-addis-ababa

Mary has visited a protected home for 96 abused women in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. Despite Addis Ababa five million inhabitants there exist only two homes for battered and abused women. Along the way the women jumped to music and the shoulders went rhythmically up and down on the dancing women. Mary danced respectfully along.

Before leaving Mary said: "Remember that it's not your fault you ended up here. And remember it can never be your own fault that you are exposed to violence."

Mary and the minister will early next week be keynote speakers at a conference in Copenhagen about Stop violence against women.

Visiting the Addis Ababa Fistula hospital today:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-IKy5uCUAAaiSc.jpg:large

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And we have today's article from the Court about some of todays activities. Seems to have been three busy days. Today is Mary's last day and she will pprobably return home late tonight:
http://kongehuset.dk/Menu/nyheder/hkh-kronprinsessen-besoger-addis-ababa

The Crown Princess visited early in the day a Safe House for battered women and children run by a local NGO, and was during the visit informed about the history and current activities. The Crown Princess was subsequently shown around and greeted some of the local residents. The center has housed women and children since 2005 and offers in addition to shelter, among other things, medical care and training in self-defense.

The Crown Princess then took part in a lunch-discussion with activists and civil society leaders working with issues from female genital mutilation, sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Later in the day the Crown Princess visited the sustainable business SoleRebels and met in the context the places female founder and entrepreneur. During the visit the Crown Princess presented parts of the production and spoke with some of the employees. SoleRebels aims to create good and well-paying jobs in a community marked by unemployment.

The Crown Princess also visited the Hamlin Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa that treat obstetric fistula. Obstetric fistula occurs in most cases as a birth injury from often young women where the child is stuck resulting in a complicated and protracted birth. Obstetric fistula represents a major part of the sexual and reproductive health problems in Africa and besides physical discomfort often the consequence that the affected women find themselves rejected by their spouse and socially ostracized by the community. During the visit, the Crown Princess was giving an introduction to the hospital's purpose, activities and results and participated in a tour of the hospital and greeted the hospital's health care professionals.

The Crown Princess will tonight attend an evening reception along with the Minister of trade and development at the Danish ambassador's residence.
 
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Thanks, Roskilde.

I see BB has changed it's feature so this will provide a better overview of Mary's activities, in this her visit to Ethiopia in particular: http://www.billedbladet.dk/kongelige/danmark/kronprinsesse-mary-dansede-med-voldsramte-kvinder-i-addis-ababa#!kalooga-17483/~Danmark%20~%22kronprinsesse%20mary%22^0.75
 
:previous: Yes, she speaks Danish as a native here and almost as good as no accent. Here in another video of Mary being interviewed by TV2. This is a shortened clip, the entire clip will be shown in the evening's main news on TV2:
Kronprinsessen i Etiopien: Rystet over omskæring af små piger | Nyhederne.tv2.dk

Huge respect and thanks to HRH Princess Mary of Denmark for visiting the site of @soleRebels new production facility!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-Ib6EZIAAA0gIU.jpg:large

"WHAT A DAY! Crown Princess Mary of Denmark paid a visit to the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital today for a cup of tea with Dr Hamlin.
Crack open the Tim Tams, there are two Aussie women in the house!"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-IV3UbIQAA43PV.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-IkXdJIMAAi7TT.jpg
http://scontent-b.cdninstagram.com/.../e15/10727591_743701319060297_565661797_n.jpg

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A long and informative article from the serious Berlingske with Mary's opinions.
Omskæring af piger og grøn omstilling - Globalt | www.b.dk
 
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