International Festival for Road Safety Campaigns in Tunisia

International Festival for Road Safety Campaigns in Tunisia

by | Nov 1, 2023 | News & Blog

Under the High Patronage of His Excellency President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali President of Tunisia, hundreds of young people are gathering in the Tunisian capital Tunis for the The 6th Session of the International Festival for Road Safety Campaigns. The Festival taking place on the 4-5th March will showcase a range of national road safety campaigns from around the world.

On the 6th, an international Young Drivers Forum will pull together experiences from around world and initiate global change on road safety. The Festival will bring together road safety professionals from around the world as well as enthusiastic campaigners and road safety representatives.

YOURS will be represented at the gathering by our UK Delegate Manpreet Darroch who will showcase YOURS’ Global Youth Movement to the international audience. Manpreet will also present the ‘British Experience from the View of his campaign, Tune into Traffic’. Stay tuned for videos, pictures and information after the event!

Jessica Billings involved in Decade of Action NGO Working Group

Jessica Billings involved in Decade of Action NGO Working Group

by | Oct 31, 2023 | News & Blog

Wednesday 24 February Jessica Billings (Youth Taskforce Member) will participate in the Global Road Safety Decade of Action NGO Working Group Meeting in Washington DC, USA. They will discuss, among other things, strategies for the Decade of Action for Global Road Safety (2011-2020) from an NGO perspective. YOURS is very keen on participating in these kind of workshops which help to orient which role youth can play in the coming Decade of Action.

The meeting is organized and hosted by several members of the Make Roads Safe Campaign for Global Road Safety in North America and the Transportation Research Board (TRB). There will be interactive, Q&A-format panels with diverse speakers on the topics of Road Infrastructure & Land Use, Road User Behavior, Vehicle Safety, and Institutional Organizations & Leadership. Jessica will attend on behalf of YOURS – Youth for Road Safety and present in the opening session an overview of our history, current situation and planned actions.

Objectives of the NGO working group meeting

1. Disseminate information from the First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety held in Moscow in November 2009;

2. Foster collaboration and joint activities (domestic and international);

3. Discuss and identify strategies for the Decade of Action for Global Road Safety (2011-2020).

YOURS at the UN General Assembly in March

YOURS at the UN General Assembly in March

by | Oct 31, 2023 | News & Blog

On 2nd March 2010 the UN General assembly will discuss the next step towards more global road safety and hopefully adopt a new UN resolution on road safety. The resolution is based on the ´Moscow Declaration´ which was approved during the Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety, held last November in Moscow.

The resolution is likely to call on Member States to declare 2011–2020 the “Decade of Action for Road Safety”. Its goal is to halt or reverse the increasing trend in road traffic deaths and injuries around the world. YOURS will attend the General Assembly and continue to lobby for more attention for the vulnerable position of young people in traffic.

The following two days the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration will meet and YOURS will present an update about the status of YOURS and her activities. Because we want to channel the voice of young people on a global level we are of course open for suggestions and your opinion. Please send us an email (info@youthforroadsafety.org) if you have an important message to the UN and her partners which we can communicate.

Join our network on Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo and LinkedIn

Join our network on Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo and LinkedIn

by | Oct 31, 2023 | News & Blog

Join us on our different social media pages like the one on Facebook: YOURS – Youth for Road Safety. Become a member today and see who else is in our network and interact with some true young road safety advocates online. Also a Twitter, Vimeo and LinkedIn account has been created.

YOURS created a facebook page with already more than 400 members, but we would like to have many more! Become a member and don´t be afraid to invite your friends to do the same ;-).

We also opened a Twitter account so you can really follow us, whenever and wherever. This way you are always sure to have the latest updates about YOURS.

For all of our latest videos, you can go to our Vimeo page, including videos in Moscow, Tunis and New York.

When you have a LinkedIn profile, you can find YOURS as well. You are one click away of joining our new established group.

We have placed buttons on our website that goes directly to our pages so don’t hesitate: join us today!

Happy New Year! YOURS wishes you a safe and fantastic 2010!

Happy New Year! YOURS wishes you a safe and fantastic 2010!

by | Oct 31, 2023 | News & Blog

YOURS is officialy launched and would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year and an outstanding and safe 2010! At the beginning of this year it is a perfect moment to look back and to have a sneak peak into the future. 2009 was a very succesful year for YOURS.

The fundament is laid and we had a great follow-up on the World Youth Assembly of 2007. Let me sum up the biggest successes:  a Youth Taskforce was formed and a beginning of the global youth network has been made. Furthermore we had a major impact on the First Global Ministerial Conference for Road Safety with a Youth Meeting the day before, the adoption of a Youth Declaration and the presence of more than 35 young people, including a youth statement in the opening ceremony together with world leaders.

This lead to the official launch of YOURS as an independent youth-led NGO directly after the Ministerial Conference. At the present time we are  building the organizational structure. In 2010 YOURS will have many activities. For example we would like to grow as soon as possble with our Global Youth Network and have partners/members in 100 countries, organize regional youth assemblies, advocate at an international level for our cause and develop/implement road safety workshops for young people. Also we will introduce online member profiles on our website, so we can show the world what young people are doing thermselves to change the current situation. This and many more will make 2010 a busy year, I am ready for it, I hope you too!

In conclusion I would like to thank all of our friends and partners for the succesfull collaboration in 2009, I count on your support for 2010 and you can count on ours!

Happy New Year!

Youth Declaration Moscow adopted by youth leaders

Youth Declaration Moscow adopted by youth leaders

by | Oct 31, 2023 | News & Blog

During the Youth Meeting on 18 November 2009, youth leaders from all regions of the world adopted the Youth Declaration Moscow. The following days it was endorsed by many digniteries, for example by the UK Minister of Transport Mr. Paul Clark at the closing session of the Ministerial Conference.

The youth handed over their Youth Declaration Moscow to, among others, the Deputy Director General of the World Health Organization: Dr Anarfi Asamoa-Baah, the Russian Chief of the General Department of the State Road Safety Inspectorate: General Victor Kiryanov, the United States Secretary of Transportation: Ray LaHood (photo) and the Chairman of the Commission for Global Road Safety: Lord Robertson.

The Youth Declaration has 4 recommendations for Ministers:

1. Talk about youth and road safety issues, learn about the situation of young people on the roads of your country and bring their issues to the forefront;

2. Design road safety policies and programs that address youth concerns and engage young people in their planning and implementation;

3. Invest in young people in your country, build youth capacities, and support local youth road safety initiatives;

4. Support the mission of YOURS by connecting us to local road safety stakeholders and youth groups, sharing your knowledge and experience, providing technical expertise, and/or providing financial resource.

” The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.”

Alfred North Whitehead – English mathematician and philosopher (1861 – 1947)