EDU-CAR Uruguay Child Road Safety Initiative
PROJECT UPDATE
EDU-CAR's program staff has been actively engaged in Uruguay's 2009 Presidential election cycte advocating for increased child passenger safety measures. EDU-CAR, coordinated by the Gonzalo Rodriguez Memorial Foundation, is committed to placing road safety on Uruguay's national agenda. In addition to meeting with the Presidential candidates, EDU-CAR has met with the Ministries of the Interior, Public Health, and Economy and Finance.
EDU-CAR has been conducting field studies in child passenger safety for both private vehicles and school buses. As a result of EDU-CAR's work in school transportation safety, Nani Rodriguez, head of the Gonzalo Rodriguez Memorial Foundation was asked to meet with the Transport, Communications and Public Works Committee in the Chamber of Deputies, Uruguay's national legislative body. Speaking of behalf of the foundation and EDU-CAR, Ms. Rodriguez provided key information on school transportation that is expected to be included in the 2009 revised National Road Safety Act No. 18191.
In February at the Road Safety Forum for Ibero-America and the Caribbean, EDU-CAR presented the the program's work with child passenger safety restraints. Replication projects are now under consideration in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Jamaica and Mexico.
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First Global Ministerial Conference
on Road Safety
November 19-20, 2009
The government of the Russian Federation,with the assistance of the United Nations Organization, will host the First Global Ministerial Conference on road safety on November 19-20, 2009 in Moscow. Russian Federation President Dmitry Medvedev will speak at the opening of the conference.
Organizers hope to convene Ministers of Transport, Health, Foreign Affairs and Education along with representatives from UN agencies, nongovernmental organizations and the private sector.The World Health Organization has established a fund to provide assistance to delegates from less developed countries. For inormation on this fund, please contact Mr. Etienne Krug, MD, MPH, Director violence and injury prevention and disability, World Health Organization (20 Avenue Appia, 1211, Geneva 27 , Switzerland, Tel: +41 22 791 3535/2983, FAX +41 22 791 4332, Email: kruge@who.int).
In addition to the plenary sessions, the conference will feature a series of panel discussions focused on policy, partnerships, the health sector, infrastructure, vehicles, road users and data.
For additional information on the conference, please visit the conference website►
Read the resolution that called for this conference, speakers' statements and press coverage of the March 31, 2008 UN General Assembly session ► |
