UN Member States have agreed a historic agreement for a comprehensive set of voluntary global road safety targets, including two specific targets on road safety (SDG 3.6 and SDG 11.2) in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The performance targets that they reached consensus on align with the five pillars of the Global Plan for the Decade of Action […]
WDoR was founded in 1993 by Brigitte Chaudhry. Now after 24 years and having seen WDoR grow into an internationally recognized, UN-endorsed event, Brigitte has announced that she will step down from her role. In light of this and with FEVR President Jeannot Mersch seeking to take a lesser role, a new WDoR advisory board […]
The Belarusian Auto Moto Touring Club (BKA) used WDoR to demonstrate to schoolchildren that road traffic crashes are avoidable provided that simple road safety rules are observed. In a school in Minsk, together with a representative of the road traffic police, BKA gave the children an overview of the history and mission of WDoR and the police […]
Yesterday, 19 November 2017, marked the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, founded by the European Federation of Road Traffic Victims (FEVR). NGOs, governments, corporations, and others around the world joined together in remembering the many millions killed and injured on the world’s roads, together with their families, friends, and many others who […]
On 3 March 2017, popular Liberian music star, Quincy L. Burrowes, was killed in a road traffic crash which also injured two other passengers. Alliance member Save Life Liberia Inc. incorporated this high-profile tragedy into their WDoR commemorations this year. Adapting the theme of WDoR 2017 to incorporate local focus, the NGO conducted their activities […]
Alliance member Association of Motorization (AMRKS), Kosovo, have been running World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims for three years. This year saw them working again in partnership with the College of Applied Technical Sciences (Tempulli), a higher education college specializing in transport, where the NGO’s founder, Muhamed Krasniqi, is the director, and the […]
In Port of Spain, Trinidad, on Sunday, Alliance member Arrive Alive hosted their annual walk and ride for road safety in memory of all those seriously injured and those who have lost their lives on the roads of Trinidad and Tobago. Connected to the walk and ride, it organized a traffic park village which brought together a […]
For the first time in Rajasthan, India, this year, the state government has committed to a state-wide campaign for the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (WDoR). At a remembrance ceremony in Jaipur, police, transport, education, youth organizations, crash victims, NGOs, media are coming together at one platform to pay homage to loved […]
At the Stop the Crash launch last month in Shanghai, China, twelve major Chinese car brands — representing 85% of the Chinese car manufacturing market — announced their decision to fit all new auto models with the life-saving, anti-skid technology known as electronic stability control (ESC), from January 2018 onward. ESC can help prevent loss of control […]
This Sunday, the Tibidabo, an emblematic building on a mountain overlooking will be illuminated as a symbol of Alliance member Asociación para la Prevención de Accidentes de Tráfico (P(A)T)’s “light of hope” for the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (WDoR). The position of the building means that it will be visible across […]
The #CommitToAct campaign pushes government leaders to COMMIT to put people first in road safety and ACT to save lives on the road. NGOs around the world are taking up the challenge to get their authorities to make specific commitments based on SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, timebound) principles. Safe Kids Worldwide Philippines (SKWP) has […]
Road traffic crash victims in Catalonia will benefit from a new agreement signed by the Interior and Health Department in October. The agreement ensures that all road victims will be provided with face-to-face support and specialized psychological attention for as long as is considered necessary. The agreement covers both direct and indirect victims, including families, […]
Following from the #SlowDown campaign for UN Global Road Safety Week in May, NGOs including Alliance members, Bien Argentino and Luchemos por la Vida, Argentina, continue to fight for lower speed limits to save lives. On 4 October 2017, they received a major boost to their campaign: a draft amendment to national law 24449 was […]
Chinara Kasmambetova, Road Safety NGO, Kyrgyzstan, was one of the Alliance members who attended the Every Journey, Every Child conference in London. She wrote an article about the conference which is translated into English below. The original version in Russian can be found on their website: http://www.db.kg/news/1810-2017-10-17-06-23-28.html. “128 children were killed, 1754 were injured by road […]
Jean Todt, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety, spoke this week at the Global Road Safety Partnership’s ‘Africa Road Safety 2017’ Summit. In his address, he pointed to the 650 deaths that occur on African roads every day and emphasised the importance of safe and sustainable mobility for Africa to fulfil its development potential. He […]
The Every Journey, Every Child conference took place 4 –5 October 2017 in London, UK. The conference featured Zoleka Mandela, Global Ambassador for the Child Health Initiative, and Jean Todt, UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety. Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London, and Mohammed Sowah, Mayor of Accra, Ghana, discussed the health and mobility […]
The Alliance is excited to welcome a new member organization that joined us in October: Road Safe Sierra Leone (RSSL) is a charitable partnership established in 2011. Its mission is to reduce road deaths and injuries by supporting and encouraging partnerships between private sector businesses, traffic engineers, the police, public health authorities, and road safety professionals to […]
As part of our preparations for the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (WDoR), organized by FEVR, we interviewed a representative from one of the many Alliance member NGOs that commemorate the event, to find out why it is important to the NGO and what their experiences in previous years have taught them. Fundación […]
In 2016 Alliance member Kunhadi, Lebanon, received an Alliance seed grant for an awareness campaign focused on new road traffic laws in Lebanon. Through a survey, they identified one aspect of the law that respondents were most interested in learning about. Their campaign, “Stop before the white lines,” was aimed at convincing drivers to stop before the white […]
In Botswana, the Society of Road Safety Ambassadors (SORSA), led by Alliance Advocate Maatla Otsogile, launched a new project in collaboration with Amend to implement proven-effective road safety measures around primary schools in Gaborone and also to work with government and other stakeholders to ensure the measures are implemented more widely across Botswana. The World Health […]
