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Embrace Life Campaign makes impact a year on in Africa
Late last year, YOURS initiated its second global road safety awareness campaign; the Embrace Life Campaign. This unique photography competition brought together over 50 countries from around the world to participate in our awareness raising project illustrating how young people 'embrace life' and consequently commit to road safety to preserve it. Now, after we selected our winners back December 2011, a project on the ground has been implemented by the winners of the Embrace Life photo competition with support from YOURS.
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Article from North American Region - Act Out Loud
Our North American CORE Group Representative Ms Jennifer Heatley gave us an update of the latest goings on in North America with regards to youth and road safety action. In her growing network of North American road safety organization, one school involved in NOYS' Act Out Loud programme submitted an article to inform the rest of us on road safety action taking place in the region!
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Check out the videos from the 4th European Road Safety Day
We are proud to present the official video showreel from the 4th European Road Safety Day in Nicosia, Cyprus which had a special focus on youth involvement in road safety. In addition, YOURS includes its presentation focusing on the active involvement of young people in road safety globally. Check out the videos here!
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Brian's Column: Buying a driving license doesn't buy you driver skills
In this edition of Brian's Column, our regular feature from the ground in Africa, Mr Brian Mwebaze offers another thought provoking article about driver activities in Africa. Did you know that it's easy to buy a driver's license? No skills, no test. Brian explains the danger of not acquiring the appropriate skills before driving and how buying a driver's license for cash doesn't buy you driver skills putting you at even higher risk of a road crash.
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4th European Road Safety Day Cyprus - a big success for youth involvement
On the 25th July 2012, young people from across Europe came together for the 4th European Road Safety Day in Nicosia, Cyprus. The day focused on a range of pressing road safety issues facing young people across Europe and was hosted by the Cyprus Presidency of the European Union 2012. Read the Cypriot Governmental press release and details of the Youth Conference on following day.
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Keep up to date with LIVE updates of the #ERSD - Nicosia, Cyprus
The Fourth European Road Safety Day (#ERSD) is underway in Nicosia, Cyprus. YOURS is will be keeping the international network updated on the latest goings on at the European Road Safety Day which has a unique focus on youth involvement in road safety across Europe. You can check out periodic updates on the site to hear what is happening at the event.
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4th European Road Safety Day: Youth involvement takes place tomorrow
The Fourth European Road Safety Day is being hosted by the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European Union tomorrow in Nicosia, Cyprus. The day has a unique focus on young people's active involvement in road safety across Europe as the day will recognize the overwhelming burden of road crashes facing young people in Europe; road crashes are still the single biggest killer of young people across Europe.
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Zindzi Mandela: Road safety is a young person's human rights
The Guardian continues its focus on global road safety with guest articles from prominent global figures. YOURS recently featured an article written by Dr Etienne Krug of the World Health Organization for the Guardian. Today, Zindzi Mandela, the daughter of the world renowned former South African President Nelson Mandela has published her article placing a human rights perspective on road safety. After the tragic death of her ganddaughter Zenani in 2010, the Mandela family have stepped into the road safety field to raise awareness and save young lives.
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PIN Report Focus: Road safety improved for some youngsters in Europe
On the 25th of July 2012, young people from all across Europe will gather in Nicosia, Cypus for the Fourth Road Safety Day which has a unique theme of young people's active involvement in road safety. One of the key presentations taking place at the event will focus on Road Safety Performance Index (PIN) report which was published last month. As a preamble to the event, YOURS is getting young people ready and equipped with some of its key pointers relating to its extensive focus on young people and road safety. In this edition, we take a look at the study which illustrates that road safety for young people has improved in Europe in some countries for this demographic group.
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An article from Etienne Krug (WHO) on the Decade of Action
In the partnership between the Road Safety Fund and the Guardian newspaper entitled, 'global road safety in focus', Dr Etienne Krug Director of the Violence, Injury Prevention and Disability (VIP) department of the World Health Organization (WHO) has written an article focusing on the importance of engaging with the Decade of Action for Road Safety.
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Road Safety Grants Programme launches call for proposals
The Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) wishes to announce a first competitive call for proposals for the Road Safety Grants Programme. The programme was initiated in early 2012 and the grants programme is part of the Road Safety in Ten Countries (RS210). Proposals will be accepted from organization working in nine countries covered by RS10: Brazil, Cambodia, China, India, Kenya, Mexico, Russia, Turkey and Viet Nam.
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Don't make-up and drive: road safety campaign targetting young females
In a twist of road safety dynamics, a new campaign targeting young females has been launched by road safety campaigners backed by Volkswagen. The campaign calls for young females to 'not make-up and drive'. While the most affected gender in road crashes is young males, this places a focus on young females to deliver a unique road safety message via a powerful viral video.
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Road Safety in Africa - more data is needed: a focus on Kenya
We know that road traffic injuries are the leading killer of young people globally and in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) the burden of road crashes on young lives is significantly higher compared to the rest of the world. However, we have seen a deficit of information, data and research into these parts of the world and so YOURS is gathering some of the available information and sharing it with our youth network. In our first focus, we look at Kenya in Africa and examine the health burden of road crashes in this part of the world.
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New European road safety report gives focus on youth road deaths
Yesterday, the Road Safety Performance Index (PIN) part of the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) published their 6th report. The publication entitled 'A Challenging Start towards the EU 2020 Road Safety Target' places a focus on three areas of road safety; the progress of countries in road safety across the EU27, recommendations for national road safety changes and the road safety problem facing young people.
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Enjoying the football? Don't let drink driving ruin the fun
Often referred as the 'beautiful game', football is truly on the radar around the world as people young and old sit back and enjoy the Euro 2012 football tournament. Whether you're from Europe or not, scores of young people around the world are gripped by the tournament. This footballing extravaganza gives friends and families the chance to get together in their local pubs, clubs and venues to enjoy the moment with some drinks, but beware, drink driving is always a danger!
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A wake up call for Europe - reducing road deaths slowed in 2011
The European Commission has issued a press release that calls for immediate action on the amount of road deaths in Europe in 2011. Last year, across Europe the amount of lives saved on slowed to 2% compared with a promosing EU-wide reduction of road deaths throughout the last ten years which was around 6% reduction of road deaths on average. What does this mean for young people?
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Spotlight On: Slovenian Traffic Safety Agency - the road traffic system
As part of the benefits from learning from one another's road safety projects via the YOURS global youth network for road safety, we like to periodically feature members of our network in a special Spotlight Feature. This time, we put the spotlight on the Slovenian Traffic Agency who work on all levels of road safety illustrating a road traffic system in action. We thought this spotlight would put this concept into a visible example.
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The Surreal Poster Series: Key Risk Factors - Part Five: Visibility
The Surreal Poster Series series has been a program that was highly subscribed to. Delegates are able to download the poster series for free, featuring five posters focusing on the five key risk factors in road safety. Now, YOURS is featuring a focus on each poster explaining the risk factor behind each theme. This week, we focus on visibility....
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An interview with lead author of the Youth and Road Safety Action Kit
On April 16th 2012, YOURS officially launched the Youth and Road Safety Action Kit. Since then, there has been unprecedented interest in our work and the background of the kit. We are incredibly proud of the finished project which kick starts our capacity development program across the world. In this article, we take a few moments to catch up with Ms Nellie Ghusayni, lead author of the kit and her journey in writing it, seeing it mapped in creative design to the finished product!
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Brian's Column: Making road safety sexy is crucial for learning
In his regular column giving us a unique insight into road safety in Africa, Brian Mwebaze writes today's article on the importance of making road safety a subject that is appealing and attractive to young people. Based on his own experience of a recent workshop, Brian offers a solution to avoiding the traditional means of learning and making education 'sexy'.
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