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YOURS participates in WHO Consultation on Adolescent Health
Last week, YOURS was invited by the World Health Organization's Adolescent Health Department to discuss a broad range of health issues facing youth. As part of a consultation on determinants for adolescent health, YOURS joined a range of youth leaders from sexual and reproductive health to substance abuse. The WHO consultation served as a consultation on the forthcoming report on Global Strategy for Women's, Children's, and Adolescents' Health as well as a youth scorecard on health determinants.
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Are you ready for the Third UN Global Road Safety Week?
As you will know by now, the Third UN Global Road Safety kicks off this Sunday 4th May taking us up to 10th May for a full week of road safety action and awareness raising. The theme for this week is children and road safety with the flagship campaign #SaveKidsLives. If you haven't taken part already, make the week a chance to get as many signatures for the campaign and take a stand for road safety, there was never a better opportunity!
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Brazilian Football says #SaveKidsLives - David Luiz becomes ambassador!
Exciting news comes from Brazil as Michelin and Confederação Brasileira de Futebol (CBF) supports the #SaveKidsLives Campaign and place it within a footballing context for mass support. The collaboration aims to bring in 100,000 Brazilian signatures in support of the Child Declaration for road safety, which will be delivered to the Brazilian government.
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Announcing the YOURS National Champions: Anglophone Africa
Our Regional Cooridnator for Anglohpone Africa, Mr Brian Bilal Mwebaze has been incredibly busy recruiting National Youth Champions for Road Safety in 14 countries across Africa. These champions help us to be even closer to youth on the ground as well as build on our team capacity. We welcome fifteen youth to the YOURS roster joining the CORE Group, Ambassadors and YOURS Staff to tackle the road safety crisis facing youth.
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A new tool available to promote #SaveKidsLives!
Our Founding Member Michelin is an international beacon for road safety awareness, investment and resposibility. More recently, a2om teamed up with Michelin to develop a set of materials that gives parents the tools to sit down with their children and talk about key risk factors facing them on the road. The materials come in the form of a creative two page document.
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Aakash Shah joins YOURS as Global Ambassador: Post-2015 Agenda
In our mission to promote youth and road safety issues across the world, a new member of the team comes aboard at YOURS with a specific and robust mission to embed youth into the forthcoming Post-2015 Development Agenda. Aakash Shah is young, passionate and talented young man who has previously worked closely on the MY World survey in India and continues to make strides for youth involvement in road safety. He joins YOURS' global team in a Global Ambassador position to bring awareness to the road safety crisis facing youth on an international platform.
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Ten Stategies for Keeping Children Safe on the Road - WHO Publish report
A new report from the World Health Organization recommends ten road traffic injury prevention strategies for protecting children. The report, ‘Ten Strategies for Keeping Children Safe on the Road’ is published today in advance of the 3rd UN Global Road Safety Week on May 4-11 and contributes towards the #SaveKidsLives campaign.
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What kind of driver are you raising? - Australian Campaign from TAC
Parents who expose their children to dangerous and aggressive driving are being targeted in a new road safety campaign, aimed at changing bad driving behaviours that are passed onto young people. Road safety attitudes often start from a young age and when parents act is bad role models to their children, road safety attitudes are often adopted by youth later on in their lives.
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Hope for the most vulnerable: Zoleka Mandela on her child safety mission
As part of the Huffington Post's Global Motherhood feature with the tagline One Story, One World; Zoleka Mandela, granddaughter of the late great Nelson Mandela writes about her experience in road safety. Zoleka has been a passionate road safety advocate since the tragic death of her daughter Zenani, who died on a South African Road. Her piece in the Huffington Post draws poignant attention on the need to protect the most vulnerable in the world; children and places focus on the #SaveKidsLives campaign.
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Brasilia Declaration on Road Safety - open for input and recommendations
On 10 April 2014 the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on “Improving global road safety”. The resolution was sponsored by the Russian Federation and co-sponsored by dozens of other countries. Among key decisions, the resolution welcomed the offer of the Government of Brazil to host the 2nd Global High Level Conference on Road Safety in 2015. The conference will be held in Brasilia, Brazil, on 18-19 November 2015.
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FedEx publish Global Citizenship Report - road safety is key!
Our friends at FedEx in United States have published their Global Citizenship Report for 2014. FedEx is a proud supporter of YOURS and we have supported our work since 2014. The report gives a focus on the depth of FedEx's investment in communities around the world; they also focus on road safety.
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TAC Cup in Australia targets youth with road safety messages
The TAC Cup is an under 18 Australian rules football representative competition held in Victoria, Australia. It is based on geographic regions throughout country Victoria and metropolitan Melbourne with each team representing 12 Victorian regions. Sponsored by the Traffc Accident Commssion in Victoria,Australia.
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Second Global High-Level Conference on Road Safety in Brazil
In April 2014, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) welcomed the Brazilian Government's offer to host the Second Global High-Level Conference on Road Safety through a resolution entitled “Improving global road safety”. The Conference will take place in Brasilia, Brazil on 18-19 November 2015, during the week in which many groups around the world mark the annual World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. It is estimated that the Conference will bring together over 1,500 participants from 150 countries, among them Ministers of Health, Cities, Transport, and Interior; senior officials from United Nations agencies; representatives of civil society; and business leaders.
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Brian's Column: Do jokes have a place in road safety?
Our regular columnist on all things Africa, Mr Brian Bilal Mwebaze is back with another topical column on jokes in road safety. Is there a place for comedy in road safety messaging? Does it work? Some organizations believe it does and others believe it doesn't. Here, Brian lays the argument down for you to think about.
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Updates from the 4th Meeting of Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety
The Fourth Global Meeting of Non-Governmental Organizations Advocating for Road Safety and Road Victims was held on 13 and 14 March 2015 in Marrakech, Morocco with participation of 170 delegates from 52 countries. YOURS was involved with a 'pre-conference' workshop on Fundraising alongside FedEx as well as represented the youth voice within the Alliance meeting.
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Dubai student filmmaker nominated for awards for road safety film
Charlie Cracknell’s film titled ‘Safe Driving Saves Lives’ was recently nominated for Best Picture and Best Editing at the THIMUN Qatar Northwestern Film Festival held annually in Doha, Qatar. The THIMUN Qatar Northwestern Film Festival attracts young film makers from around the world. The Festival serves as a platform for young people to create advocacy films on local or global issues.
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Youth to talk about road safety practices at Marrakech NGO meet
Akash Shah is an incredible activist from Pune, India who has been actively pushing for participation in the #SaveKidsLives campaign through his work via the Action for Pune Development. He will be joining campaigners and decision makers from across the world in attending Fourth Global Meeting of NGOs dealing with road safety to be held in Marrakech, Morocco on March 13. He will also join YOURS in pushing for youth issues to be a key priority at the event.
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Continuing the Post-2015 Development Agenda push - Policy Briefing
As we have been continually reporting, the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda is equipping the world with a focus for global development beyond the Millennium Development Goals. Road safety remains a topic that is continued to be advocated for with a specific mention in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A recent event continued on policy briefing for the cause by the FIA Foundation.
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UK drug driving campaign focuses on 'paranoia' effects
Drink driving is a well documented cause with scientific backing on how alcohol impairs driving to a large extent. Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) is quite clear cut and now, drug driving is being given the same treatment in the UK. A new campaign by THINK! the road safety campaigning arm of the UK Department for Road Safety focuses on the effects of 'paranoia' on driving as well as the impairment effects of drug driving.
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Superhero gives helping hand to Georgian pedestrians
Our friends and network member from the country of Georgia, Georgia Alliance for Safe Roads shared a great story of a 'superhero zebra' offering a helping hand to pedestrians across Georgia. Zebraman took to one of Georgia's smaller cities to promote safer pedestrian actions and spoke with people about road safety.
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