UN ROAD SAFETY
April 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE WORLD Health Organisation is to be named as the coordinator of a global plan to cut road deaths from their current level 1.2 million. The United Nations general assembly is discussing how it can work with the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and relevant national ministries to reduce the number of such tragedies. A key role for the UN will be working in developing countries, where there are more deaths compared with traffic levels than in rich countries. Poorer states "often lacked the resources ...
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