Improving Global Road Safety

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 46Global road safety crisis, published in 2008.

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10 versions · 2004–2024

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14 topics

Capacity Building Conferences Cooperation Between Organizations Data Collection Developing Countries Financial Assistance International Weeks Programmes of Action Regional Commissions Road Traffic Road Transport Technical Cooperation Traffic Accidents Traffic Safety

What does this mandate say?

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Invites Member States to actively participate in the development of the global road safety status report being prepared by the World Health Organization;

Invites all Member States to participate in the projects to be implemented by the United Nations regional commissions to assist low- and middle-income countries in setting their own national road traffic casualty reduction targets, as well as regional targets;

Reaffirms the importance of addressing global road safety issues and the need for the further strengthening of international cooperation, taking into account the needs of developing countries by building capacities in the field of road safety and providing financial and technical support for their efforts;

Encourages Member States to continue to strengthen their commitment to road safety, including by observing the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims on the third Sunday of November every year;

Invites the World Health Organization and the United Nations regional commissions, in cooperation with other partners in the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration, to promote multisectoral collaboration by organizing, when appropriate, United Nations Global Road Safety Weeks, including Stakeholders’ Forums for Global Road Safety;

Encourages organizations in both the private and the public sector with vehicle fleets, including agencies of the United Nations system, to develop and implement policies and practices that will reduce crash risks for vehicle occupants and other road users;

Welcomes the offer by the Government of the Russian Federation to host and provide the necessary financial support for the first global high-level (ministerial) conference on road safety, to be held in 2009, to bring together delegations of ministers and representatives dealing with transport, health, education, safety and related traffic law enforcement issues, to discuss progress in implementing the recommendations of the World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention and the General Assembly resolutions on improving global road safety, and provide an opportunity for Member States to exchange information and best practices;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-fourth session the item entitled “Global road safety crisis”, and requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at that session on the progress made in improving global road safety.

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