Global Road Safety Film Festival
Dear Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen,
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 2nd Global Road Safety Film Festival on 18 and 19 February, 2010 in Marrakech.
This event follows on from the Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety held in Moscow, organized by the Russian Federation with the support of the United Nations, where 1.500 people from 150 countries met to analyze the conditions for improving global road safety and develop a comprehensive and shared strategy.
The work of the Conference in Moscow confirmed that communication, combined with education, science and culture, is one of the few approaches to road safety, influencing the behavior is likely to lead to positive results in medium and long term.
Anyone whose job is to save lives on the roads know that road safety is a shared responsibility and globalization marks the transition from regional and national programs to a comprehensive approach taking into account the peculiarities of different countries.
The Global Road Safety Film Festival aims to facilitate international cooperation in road safety between different regions of the world by involving representatives of the United Nations road safety Collaboration Group, politicians, business leaders, local authorities, associations, producers and users of multimedia documents, journalists and communication professionals, young students, students of schools and young people involved in road safety.
Our goal is to share best practices for road safety actions, creating a global center of multimedia resources on road safety which will enhance the ability of all to develop and implement prevention programs.
This will ensure that the results of the Moscow Conference had a lasting importance to the global level and encourage the commitment to effective action reflecting a strong political will, common objectives and mobilize resources at all levels, global, regional, National and local.
We would appreciate you forward this email and attachments to all persons and organizations that you know are concerned about road safety.
