{"id":8162,"date":"2018-12-03T08:14:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T08:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=8162"},"modified":"2018-12-06T12:12:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T12:12:25","slug":"leadership-is-the-theme-of-un-global-road-safety-week-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/leadership-is-the-theme-of-un-global-road-safety-week-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership is the theme of UN Global Road Safety Week 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Road Safety Collaboration has announced the theme of its fifth Global Road Safety Week, \u201cleadership for road safety\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/roadsafety\/week\/2019\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Week<\/a>, which will be held from May 6-12 2019, is to generate a demand from the public for stronger leadership for road safety worldwide. Its objectives are to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>provide an opportunity for civil society to generate demands for strong leadership for road safety, especially around concrete, evidence-based interventions which will save lives<\/li>\n<li>inspire leaders to take action by showcasing examples of strong leadership for road safety within governments, international agencies, NGOs, foundations, schools and universities, and private companies, among others<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>UN Global Road Safety Week is targeted primarily at civil society organizations and policy-makers in charge of road safety. The lead up to the Week will follow a phased approach highlighting the risks people face on their daily travels \u2013 \u201cthis is my journey\u201d; the demands they generate based on these risks \u2013 \u201cthis is my demand\u201d; and the ways that forceful and compelling leaders can work with them to address these demands \u2013 \u201cthis is our solution\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Resources to help in the planning of activities of events to mark the Week, including logo and slogan, sign boards, template petition letters and pledge announcements, and a toolkit for organizers, will be available on the UN Global Road Safety Week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/roadsafety\/week\/2019\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Road Safety Collaboration has announced the theme of its fifth Global Road Safety Week, \u201cleadership for road safety\u201d. The goal of the Week, which will be held from May 6-12 2019, is to generate a demand from the public for stronger leadership for road safety worldwide. Its objectives are to: provide an opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":8164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}