Global Road Safety Crisis

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 160 Global road safety crisis, published in 2003.

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2 documents · 2003

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2003	A/RES/58/9	Global road safety crisis	628	–
2003	A/RES/57/309	Global road safety crisis	249	–

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Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 6	Research, trend analysis and forensics	19

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Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 6	Research, trend analysis and forensics	19	—

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What subjects does this mandate have?

10 subjects

Civil Society Conferences Experts Information Exchange Non-Governmental Organizations Private Sector Report Preparation Road Transport Traffic Accidents Traffic Safety

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Decides to hold a plenary meeting of the General Assembly on 14 April 2004 in connection with World Health Day and the launching of the World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention to increase awareness at a high level of the magnitude of the road traffic injury problem, and invites Governments to participate, as appropriate;

Invites the President of the General Assembly, the Secretary-General, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, the President of the World Bank, the Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund and the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme to address the Assembly;

Invites the Economic and Social Council, working with other relevant organizations and bodies of the United Nations system, and through its regional commissions, to facilitate the exchange of information on best road traffic safety practices and the development of recommendations for road traffic injury control;

Requests the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat to organize a meeting of experts, the private sector, relevant non-governmental organizations, members of civil society and other interested parties, including the media, on the morning of 15 April 2004, in conjunction with the plenary meeting, to raise awareness and exchange information on best road practices;

Underlines the need for international cooperation to deal with issues of road safety;

Requests the Secretary-General, through an appropriate United Nations body, to submit a report to the General Assembly at its sixtieth session on the progress made in improving global road safety and the issues referred to in the present resolution, also taking into consideration the views expressed during the meetings on 14 and 15 April 2004;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixtieth session the item entitled “Global road safety crisis”.

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