A joint Pledge to improve road safety signed by representatives of states and National Societies leaders at the 31^st International Red Cross Red Crescent Conference last November in Geneva marked yet another global milestone towards improving the situation in road safety in the world - and momentum is continuing to build.

Prior to the Conference the 187 National Societies leaders recognized road safety as a man-made humanitarian crisis that takes lives of 1.3 million people each year and approved a common framework for Red Cross Red Crescent action in road safety, and approved a  Pledge on

In late October 2011, within the Bloomberg Philanthropies Road Safety in 10 Countries project, the Global Road Safety Partnership organized two workshops on Seat-belts and Child Restraints Management for 70 management level road safety stakeholders in Turkey. Representatives of the traffic police, health departments, and transport and highway authorities joined the Chamber of Drivers, Turkish Red Crescent Society, universities, and non-governmental organizations to enhance their knowledge of seat-belts and child restraints use and prepare draft strategies for increasing their use.

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