UN Special Envoy for Road Safety

Jean Todt, UN Special Envoy for Road Safety and President of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), addresses the opening of the Global Road Safety Film Festival held in Geneva on 20-21 February, 2017.
UN Photo/Violaine Martin

‘Absolutely essential’ to put road safety top of developing countries’ agenda: UN envoy

13 October 2018
Interviews

With 90 per cent of road-related injuries and fatalities occurring in developing countries, it is “absolutely essential” for those countries to put road safety on top of their agenda.  That’s the message from the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety, Jean Todt, who spoke with UN News's Florence Westergard earlier this year about how important road safety is to global development and what can be done to improve it.

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7'27"
Collage of photos of Jean Todt (top), UN Special Envoy for Road Safety; (l to r) Saul Billingsley, FIA Foundation; and Olga Algayerova, UNECE.
UN News/Matt Wells

New fund takes on 'public health emergency' of global road deaths

18 April 2018
The Lid is On

For this latest Lid Is On podcast from UN News, we’ll hear from three of the leading voices involved in the new UN Road Safety Trust Fund, launched this month, which is committed to “accelerating progress” in saving the lives of pedestrians, drivers, and cyclists across the world.

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26'37"