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GET READY FOR #COMMITTOACT STREETS FOR LIFE The #CommitToAct Streets for Life Week of Action will take place 16–22 May 2022. Using calls to action defined by Alliance members, the Week of Action will support NGOs to engage with their national decision makers to make specific meaningful commitments for evidence-based action aligned to the Global Plan starting with 30 km/h limits where people move, live, and play, investment for road safety, and involvement of NGOs in decision making processes. Alliance members, other NGOs, corporates, and road safety advocates are all invited to take part by organizing round tables and other events to push for decision maker commitments, and join the social media campaign. Find out how to take part HERE and download resources to support your campaign HERE. Don't forget to take part in the Twitterstorm at 15:00 CEST on 18 May 2022. Find out how HERE.

RAISING NGOS' VOICE AT THE INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT FORUM IN LEIPZIG During the Week of Action, the Alliance, representing its NGOs, will take part in the Annual Summit of the International Transport Forum, held in Leipzig, Germany. The Annual Summit is attended by Ministers with responsibility for transport, parliamentarians, and policy makers, and is therefore an ideal opportunity to bring NGOs' call to action to those with the power to act. Lotte Brondum, the Alliance's Executive Director, will be among the speakers at the Ministers' Roundtable where transport ministers from different countries will take part in discussions about the Safe System approach and its linkage to other sustainable development challenges. As a focal point for the Week of Action, the Alliance will hold an online session, Live from Leipzig: #30 in Action. Live from Leipzig will feature in-person attendees at the summit and showcase cities where 30km/h speed limit have been implemented in urban areas. The session will be held at 14:00 CEST on Wednesday 18 May 2022. Find out more and register HERE.

START WITH 30: MOMENTUM IS BUILDING FOR 30 KM/H AND LOWER The #CommitToAct Streets for Life campaign includes a specific focus on implementation of 30 km/h limits where people move, live, and play. This theme is a continuation from the UN Global Road Safety Week Streets for Life #Love30 campaign in May 2021. Feedback from Alliance NGOs after the #Love30 campaign showed that all of those surveyed intended to keep advocating for 30 km/h and that the highly specific advocacy message helped NGOs to realise their campaign objectives. Since then, and supported by inclusion of 30 km/h limits as a recommended intervention in the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021–2030, many cities and countries have made progress toward 30 km/h limits in urban areas, some at national level, others at municipality or street levels, a number of them as a result of NGO advocacy and the #Love30 campaign. Read recent updates from INDIA, SENEGAL, and VIETNAM.

MEXICO: WHY MAKE SAFE MOBILITY A RIGHT This month in Mexico, a new General Mobility Law was passed by the Senate. The new law is based on the principle that safe mobility is a right. As such, it integrates traditional behavioral road safety risk factors into a wider mobility framework and establishes a new hierarchy where the needs of pedestrians and cyclists, who are most at risk, are prioritized above those of less vulnerable road users, such as motorists. These significant steps have been accomplished through the advocacy of Coalición de Movilidad Segura (Safe Mobility Coalition), led by and involving several Alliance members. The groundwork for the law was laid through an amendment to Mexico's constitution in 2021, recognizing the right to safe mobility. This is significant because it sets road safety in the context of a right that should be guaranteed to every person. The Alliance has sought for road safety to be seen as a right since its 2020 report, The Day Our World Crumbled: The Human Impact of Inaction on Road Safety, and the #CommitToAct campaign. The Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021–2030, launched last year, explicitly recognizes that “placing safety at the core of our road safety efforts will automatically make safe mobility a human right.” Read about NGOs' advocacy for the law in Mexico HERE and read the Alliance's article on road safety as a right HERE.

ALLIANCE WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS The Alliance is delighted to welcome two new members that joined us recently. Full members Indian Road Safety Campaign, Solve, India Associate members Australasian College of Road Safety, Australia Read more about our new members HERE and find out about joining the Alliance HERE.

UPCOMING EVENTS AND DEADLINES

Update on the High-level Meeting: 4 May 2022 14:00 CEST. Register HERE (Alliance members only).

#CommitToAct Streets for Life Week of Action: 16–20 May 2022. Read more HERE.

Live from Leipzig: 18 May 2022 14:00 CEST. Read more and register HERE.

#CommitToAct Streets for Life Twitterstorm: 18 May 2022 15:00 CEST. Read more HERE.

High-level Meeting of the UN General Assembly on Global Road Safety: 30 June–1 July 2022.

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