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SUMMARY:High-Level Meeting on Improving Global Road Safety
DTSTART:20260720T210000Z
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CONTACT:ngls@un.org
DESCRIPTION:In accordance with General Assembly resolution 80/247 of 10 Ma
 rch 2026\, the President of the General Assembly\, in collaboration with t
 he World Health Organization\, will convene a one-and-a-half-day high-leve
 l 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 b
 e “Scaling up and accelerating implementation of commitments to halving 
 road traffic deaths and injuries by 2030.”\nThe event will bring Heads o
 f State and government\, ministers\, officials and experts together from g
 overnments\, the UN\, civil society\, academia\, the private sector and ph
 ilanthropic foundations to advance progress in meeting the goal of halving
  road deaths and injuries by 2030 that was agreed in the UN Decade of Acti
 on for Road Safety 2021-2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals. \nTh
 e 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 pre
 vious three Global Ministerial Conference held in Moscow in 2009\, Brasili
 a in 2015 and Stockholm in 2020.\nA note by the UN Secretary-General\, tit
 led ‘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 m
 easurable targets in place across all countries\, and supported by the pri
 vate sector\, civil society and youth movements regardless of income level
 . \nDate/Time: 20 July\, 3 p.m. - 6 p.m.\n                    
  21 July\, 10 a.m. -  6 p.m.\nLocation: UN Headquarters\, New York\nGene
 ral Assembly Hall and Trusteeship Council Chamber\nRegistration\nThis regi
 stration is for representatives of Specially Accredited Organizations only
 . If your organization has consultative status with ECOSOC\, your represen
 tatives should register using a separate link which will be available shor
 tly. To check if your organization has been Specially Accredited\, please 
 check here.\nRegistration closes on 12 July at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time.\nA
 vailable broadcast live on UN Web TV. \nIf you do not already have an 
 Indico account\, please create one before proceeding with your application
 .\nMore information: WHO website\n\nhttps://indico.un.org/event/1024726/
LOCATION:United Nations Headquarters
URL:https://indico.un.org/event/1024726/
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