P(A)T IN THE UN

The impact of P(A)T in the world of road safety is undeniable!

On June 30 and July 1, the UN High-Level Meeting was held at the UN headquarters in New York to develop measures and proposals with the aim of improving road safety on the roads. You can see the video of the meeting on their official website.

You can read a summary of the meeting made by the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety (@GlobalAlinaceNGOS) at this link.

The meeting was the first high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly for Road Safety. From the Road Safety NGO community we had high expectations as it could mean a turning point in terms of real leadership, a clear allocation of resources and a commitment to implement effective interventions to reduce deaths and injuries on the road by 50%. % by 2030 as proposed by the signatory states of the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030.

A large number of NGOs applied to the call for participation, and among the few accepted we found our entity P(A)T – Traffic Accident Prevention, an invitation that, unfortunately and for logistical and economic reasons, we had to reject.

However, the printing of our demands in previous meetings continued, proof of this being the fact that we started for the first time with a minute of silence in honor of the victims of traffic accidents. Yolanda Doménech had already asked for it in 2019 at the UNRSC meeting in Geneva (Switzerland).

We are sure that meetings of this caliber can have an impact on how these terrible events are perceived and promote the acceptance of the vision of accidents from an empathic perspective towards the victims of mobility.

Despite everything, any reference to the observance of the World Day in Honor of Trafficking Victims was removed from the final declaration, which we consider to be an error, as we stated through a statement at the time.

From P(A)T we remember that Road Safety must be beyond political struggles and be a subject in which the consensus and commitment of all prevail, to apply the measures and actions necessary to save lives.