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Global Road Safety Crisis

A/RES/57/309No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 169Global road safety crisis, published in 2003.

What else is in this group?

2 documents · 2003
  • 2003A/RES/58/9Global road safety crisisCompare with earlier document
  • 2003A/RES/57/309Global road safety crisis

This group bundles related documents that are not individually ordered.

iGrouped automatically by matching titles within the same organ.

What subjects does this mandate have?

11 topics
Civil SocietyInformation DisseminationInternational DaysPublic HealthReport PreparationRoad TrafficSafety EducationSchoolchildrenTraffic AccidentsTraffic RegulationsTraffic Safety

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report of the Secretary-General submitted under this mandate, 2003.

  • 2003A/58/228Global road safety crisis report of the Secretary-General

iIdentified automatically from the metadata in each report’s UN Digital Library catalogue record.

What does this mandate say?

4 operative paragraphs
1
Welcomes the efforts of the World Health Organization to designate “Safe roads” as the theme of World Health Day 2004, to be observed on 7 April of that year, and to undertake the development of a world report on road traffic injury prevention, to be issued in April 2004;
2
Encourages Governments and civil society to raise awareness of the widespread problem of preventable road traffic deaths and injuries, targeting especially the young in educational establishments;
3
Urges all Governments to promulgate and to continue to enforce existing traffic laws;
4
Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General Assembly on the global road safety crisis, through the appropriate United Nations body, taking into consideration the views expressed by Member States and the relevant organs and agencies within the United Nations system, for consideration by the Assembly at its fifty-eighth session.

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