In accordance with General Assembly resolution 80/247 of 10 March 2026, the President of the General Assembly, in collaboration with the World Health Organization, will convene a one-and-a-half-day high-level meeting on improving global road safety on 20 and 21 July 2026 at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The overall theme of the meeting will be “Scaling up and accelerating implementation of commitments to halving road traffic deaths and injuries by 2030.”
The event will bring Heads of State and government, ministers, officials and experts together from governments, the UN, civil society, academia, the private sector and philanthropic foundations to advance progress in meeting the goal of halving road deaths and injuries by 2030 that was agreed in the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals.
The one-and-a-half day event will be live-streamed online. It builds on the Political Declaration of the High-Level Meeting on Road Safety adopted by the UN General Assembly in June 2022, and the Fourth Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety held in Morocco in February 2025 as well as previous three Global Ministerial Conference held in Moscow in 2009, Brasilia in 2015 and Stockholm in 2020.
A note by the UN Secretary-General, titled ‘Improving global road safety’ was released on February 13, 2026. The report notes that road traffic injuries remain a major global health and development challenge, and that road safety must be institutionalized as a long-term priority, with robust agencies, strategic planning and measurable targets in place across all countries, and supported by the private sector, civil society and youth movements regardless of income level.
Date/Time: 20 July, 3 p.m. - 6 p.m.
21 July, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Location: UN Headquarters, New York
General Assembly Hall and Trusteeship Council Chamber
Registration
This registration is for representatives of Specially Accredited Organizations only. If your organization has consultative status with ECOSOC, your representatives should register using a separate link which will be available shortly. To check if your organization has been Specially Accredited, please check here.
Registration closes on 12 July at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time.
Available broadcast live on UN Web TV.
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More information: WHO website