High-Level Meeting
The High-Level Meeting on Road Safety took place last June 30 - July 1st at the United Nations HQ, in New York City. We held three specific actions here; led an art exhibition featuring six different pieces inspired by the #ClaimingOurSpace Campaign, hosted a side event to launch a policymaker's toolkit that lists guidelines on HOW and WHERE to engage with young people in road safety, and participated in the HLM Agenda as speakers and delegates. In all these actions, we highlighted youth voices we gathered throughout the campaign and show local and global leaders that youth are capable of leading change.
“Stop blaming us, start Engaging us.”
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Photos by Arnaldo (Tito) Cepeda | Edits by Lisa Russell (Create2030)
GLOBAL ART EXHIBITION
Six youth artists from Argentina, Brazil, Jordan, Nigeria, India, and South Africa, curated by Emmy-Award-winning Lisa Russell, offer you thought-provoking pieces through video, dance, performance and visual art to stimulate intergenerational dialogue. We implore decision-makers to partner with us to tackle this global crisis. Will you work with us? Check out the artwork below!
MEET OUR YOUTH DELEGATES
To ensure that the youth agenda is acknowledged and included in the discussions during the High-Level Meeting on Improving Road Safety, we sent some of our youth leaders to take part and lead events at the Meeting.
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OUR OFFICIAL SIDE EVENT
stop blaming us & start engaging us
Through this unique youth-led event, we promoted an intergenerational dialogue between youth, government authorities, and multilateral agencies to discuss meaningful youth participation in implementing the Global Plan of the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030. At the same time, YOURS announced the Policymakers Toolkit for meaningful youth participation in road safety, a step-by-step guide for policymakers and practitioners on how to systematically mainstream meaningful youth participation into road safety policies and programs.
WATCH THE FULL SESSION HERE:
ABOUT THE SIDE EVENT: how can decision-makers work with youth on road safety?
Young people are paying an unacceptably high price for their mobility. Globally, road traffic crashes have been the biggest killer of young people aged 15-29 for more than a decade. Even though road crashes are the most pressing public health threat to the lives of young people, many road safety policies and interventions still do not respond to the unique needs of youth. Neither are young people included meaningfully in the design, implementation, or review of road safety action. Young people are often seen as problem road users and blamed for their peers dying on the road, but we know that major disparities exist across the world. We believe that youth has an important role to play in shaping their future and contributing to the much-needed change in road safety.
meet our speakers!
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