Global Road Safety Crisis

A/RES/57/309View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

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

What else is in this group?

2 documents · 2003

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2003	A/RES/58/9	Global road safety crisis	628	–
2003	A/RES/57/309	Global road safety crisis	249	–

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Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2003

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2003	A/58/228	Global road safety crisis report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/57/309

What subjects does this mandate have?

11 subjects

Civil Society Information Dissemination International Days Public Health Report Preparation Road Traffic Safety Education Schoolchildren Traffic Accidents Traffic Regulations Traffic Safety

What’s in this document?

4 operative paragraphs

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;

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;

Urges all Governments to promulgate and to continue to enforce existing traffic laws;

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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