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Happy Anniversary to the Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety!
Today, July 7, the Coalition is celebrating the anniversary of its launch! The Global Youth Coalition was initiated by YOURS – Youth for Road Safety and is a direct follow-up after the 2nd World Youth Assembly for Road Safety. The Coalition unites individual youth and organizations for road safety and sustainable mobility and offers opportunities, skills, resources, capacity development, and partnerships for its members so that they maximize their impact on road safety and meaningful youth involvement in their respective countries and communities.
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#ArtforRoadSafety Challenge kicks off in Egypt with artist Elna2ash
The #ArtforRoadSafety challenge kicks off this week, July 6 to 8, in Egypt featuring local artist Ahmed Fathy (Elna2ash). Art for Road Safety is the first challenge for safer mobility on the African continent. It will be held in Egypt, Uganda, and Senegal with the purpose to change behaviors and empower young people to raise awareness on road safety through artistic intervention.
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Coalition members represent YOURS at EU Youth Sounding Board
Last March 2021, the European Commission launched a call for application for young people to participate in the Youth Sounding Board for International Partnerships. The sounding board will advise the EU Commissioner for international Partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen, on the relevance and effectiveness of EU external actions when it comes to young people and youth involvement.
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Watch the highlights from the Youth Stars Celebration event!
Earlier this month, graduates from the Youth Stars programme in collaboration with iRap - International Road Assessment Programme and Star Rating for Schools. During the celebration event, our graduates reflected on their training experience on Star Rating for Schools! Check out our video!
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Danish Road Safety Council launch helmet campaign featuring "real vikings"
The Danish Road Safety Council launched a campaign that helps raise awareness of the importance of wearing a helmet. In the campaign, Rådet for Sikker Trafik shows how a Viking needed to wear a helmet to ride his horse for safety. A character went on to say "you can go looting and pillaging all you want, but you have to wear a helmet".
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NOW HIRING: The YOURS team is looking for a Supervisory Board member
YOURS – Youth for Road Safety is looking for another member of the Supervisory Board to help support the strategic ambitions of the organization. The Supervisory Board works in collaboration with the YOURS team in accordance with our organizational principles, vision, and mission.
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YOURS and TotalEnergies Foundation Launch the #ArtforRoadSafety Challenge
Paris, June 15, 2021 – The Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety, Youth for Road Safety (YOURS), and TotalEnergies Foundation are taking to social media to launch #ArtforRoadSafety, the first challenge for safer mobility on the African continent. Road safety is a critical issue for young people in Africa, where road traffic accidents are the leading cause of death for people aged 15 to 29.
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Youth Stars Programme caps off with celebration event for programme passers
Last Friday, June 11, YOURS – Youth for Road Safety with iRAP – International Road Assessment Programme and the Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety held a celebration event for the passers of the Youth Stars Programme. A total of 21 members of the Coalition were able to pass the month-long programme and were certified to use the Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) methodology to rate roads in their local schools and universities.
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Movin' On Summit: connecting and engaging with mobility stakeholders
Last Tuesday to Friday, June 1 to 4, independent and non-profit organization Movin’ On launched the Movin’ On Summit with the theme “from ambition to action”. The goal of the summit is to inspire, connect, and engage mobility stakeholders in collective action to create and implement concrete solutions for more mobility with less dangerous impacts on the environment, society, and community.
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Youth claiming their space within the Global Plan of Action for Road Safety
Last August 2020, the United Nations adopted resolution 74/299 "Improving global road safety" , proclaiming the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030. The plan highlights how governments and member states can take action in order to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 3.6 - halving the number of road-related deaths and injuries by the year 2030.
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YOURS highlights youth action in Jamaica National Road Safety Council webinar
Last Thursday, May 20, YOURS – Youth for Road Safety Head of Communications, Manpreet Darroch, joined the Jamaica National Road Safety Council webinar for the 6 th UN Global Road Safety Week. The session tackled the importance of addressing road crashes in Jamaica. Dr. Lucien Jones, Vice Chairman of the National Road Safety Council, led the session.
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YOURS joins conversation on Helping Students Get to School Safely
On May 18, the Child Injury Prevention Alliance (CIPA) led a webinar to talk about ensuring safer journeys for students around the world through a webinar entitled How Communities Can Help Students Get to School Safely. This is part of the global programs for the 6th UN Global Road Safety Week that focuses on advocating for 30 km/h (20 mp/h) streets through the Streets for Life campaign.
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Coalition joins launch of 6th UN Global Road Safety Week
Last Monday, May 17, the 6 th UN Global Road Safety Week was launched on behalf of the UN Road Safety Collaboration. The theme for this year’s UNGRSW is Streets for Life and it raises awareness on the importance of 30 km/h streets. The global launch gathered global road safety leaders and representatives to talk about why low-speed streets are important in road safety and urban design.
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Join the webinar on How Communities Can Help Students Get to School Safely
As part of Global Road Safety Week 2021, Child Injury Prevention Alliance with iRAP – International Road Assessment Programme and Star Rating for Schools will hold a webinar on How Communities Can Help Students Get to School Safely. The webinar highlights the 6th UN Global Road Safety Week's theme: Streets for Life and will help raise awareness on the importance of low-speed streets in communities, especially in school zones.
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Healthy People Rwanda (HPR) calls for safer road infrastructures and lower speeds
Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety member and Vision Zero Youth Council - Rwanda President, Nkumbuye Ami, submitted an article that talks about issues around safer mobility in the newly constructed road that connects Huye and Gisagara District in Rwanda. It also highlights the importance of road infrastructures and reduced speed limits. We reproduced the article here.
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YOURS to join Autonomy Digital event for sustainable mobility solutions
The Urban Mobility Company is launching Autonomy Digital 2.0: Moving the Business of Mobility Forward this May 19 to 20, 2021. Autonomy Digital will help bring together the stakeholders involved in sustainable and intelligent mobility. Representatives of YOURS – Youth for Road Safety through the Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety will be participating in a panel scheduled on the first day of the event.
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Michelin Corporate Foundation highlights the work of YOURS & the Coalition
Last March 2021, YOURS - Youth for Road Safety officially welcomed Michelin Corporate Foundation as a Programme Partner to the Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety. T he partnership between the Coalition and Michelin Corporate Foundation will invest and support the Coalition’s work to empower youth across the globe. In their annual report, Michelin reiterated the partnership and supported the youth and road safety movement. Our relationship with Michelin goes back all the way to 2009 where Michelin became the Founding Member of the organization. We reproduced the article here:
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The Global Coalition for Road Safety launches SDG Youth Champions
The Global Youth Statement for Road Safety lists down the demands and commitments of young people over the world to achieve the road safety targets set in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs help define the Coalition’s priorities and guides them on implementing measures that uphold road safety and sustainable transport. These efforts help the global community move closer to the target of halving the number of road-related deaths and injuries by 2030.
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Global Youth Coalition joins first virtual ECOSOC Youth Forum
Last week, April 7 and 8, the United Nations launched the first virtual ECOSOC Youth Forum. The Forum created a platform for candid dialogue between Member States and young leaders from around the world. Topics during the Forum include potential solutions to address challenges that affect the well-being of young people around the world. This year’s theme was on sustainable and resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Youth Stars Programme wraps up with fourth session on cases and FAQs
Last Monday, April 5, the Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety with YOURS – Youth for Road Safety and iRAP – International Road Assessment Programme launched the fourth and last session of the youth stars programme. The sessions ran for four weeks every Monday and were led by Master Trainers from all over the world who were recruited by YOURS.
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