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The Global Road Safety Crisis The Global Road Safety Crisis: We Should Do Much More

The Global Road Safety Crisis: We Should Do Much More report documents the recent global road safety activities at the UN—the General Assembly meeting on April 14 and the Stakeholders Forum on April 15—as well as events leading up to the UN meetings, including two technical briefings, World Health Day and the World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention.

This is a very important step forward in generating widespread demand for road safety, building political will, and mobilizing the resources needed to respond to the global epidemic of road traffic injuries and deaths.

The full report is available in pdf format.

pdfThe Global Road Safety Crisis: We Should Do More - complete document (13.4mb)
pdfCover (1.6mb)
pdf Table of Contents (38kb)
pdf A Clarion Call (1.7mb)
pdfUN Technical Briefing Summaries (1.1mb)
pdfKey World Health Organization/World Bank Road Safety Efforts (1mb)
pdfUN General Assembly Meeting - April 14, 2004 (3.4mb)
pdfUN Stakeholders Forum - April 15, 2004 (2.6mb)
pdfContributors (1.1mb)
pdfBack Cover (1.6mb)

   
Make Roads Safe

Making Roads Safe in Latin America and the Caribbean

pdfMaking Roads Safe in Latin America and the Caribbean - English (1.7mb)
pdfConstruyendo Carreteras Seguras en America Latine y El Caribe - Español (1.7mb)

   
 

Óscar Arias Sánchez, Saturday September 9 2006, The Washington Post

pdf Peace on the Roads - English (13kb)
pdf Paz en las Carreteras - Español (14kb)
   
  pdf The 2nd United Nations Stakeholder Forum On Global Road Safety, Geneva, Switzerland - April 25, 2007 (508kb)
   
  pdf Background Rationale for the Regionale Committee (16kb)
   
  pdfDeclaration of San Jose: We Must Stop the Epidemic of Death on Our Roads - English (37kb)
pdfDeclaración de San José: Debemos Detener la Epidemia de Muertes en Nuestras Carreteras - Español (202kb)
   
  pdfAccra Declaration, Ministerial Round Table, African Road Safety Conference, Accra, Ghana - 8 February 2007 (116kb)
   
  pdfBusan Declaration, Ministerial Declaration on Improving Road Safety in Asia and the Pacific, Busan, Republic of Korea, 6-11 November 2006 (88kb)
   
  pdfDeclaration of New Delhi: We Must Stop the Epidemic of Death on Our Roads, January 13 2007 (18kb)

UN Resolutions

  pdfA/RES/57/309 - Global Road Safety Crisis - May 22, 2003 (source: unece.org)
pdfA/RES/58/9 - Global Road Safety Crisis - November 5, 2003 (source: unece.org)
pdfA/RES/58/289 - Improving Global Road Safety - April 14, 2004 (source: unece.org)
pdfWHA57.10 - Road Safety and Health - May 22, 2004 (source: unece.org)
pdfA /RES/60/5 - Improving Global Road Safety - October 26, 2005 (source: unece.org)
pdfA/RES/62/244- Improving Global Road Safety - March 31, 2008 (source: who.int)
   
  pdfUN Secretary General's Report on Global road safety crisis A/58/228 - 7 August 2003 (79kb)
pdfUN Secretary General's Report on Improving Global Road Safety A/62/257 - 14 August 2007 (69kb)

Other resources

  pdfWorld Bank Global Road Safety Facility Strategic Plan 2006-2015 (source: worldbank.org)
  pdfMake Roads Safe: A New Priority for Sustainable Development (source: makeroadssafe.org)
 
Make Roads Safe: The Global Campaign (source: makeroadssafe.org)
  pdfYouth Declaration for Road Safety (source: who.int)