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The road safety, a global priority.
The figures are telling. 1.3 million people are currently killed on the roads every year. If nothing is done, that figure will rise to 2.4 million by 2030. Road accidents are currently the ninth highest cause of death in the world; in 2030 they will be the fifth highest cause of death. They will kill more people than AIDS and cancer. Between now and 2015, traffic accidents could even become the leading cause of disability in children aged five years and over. And the problem is most acute in developing countries!
PAKISTAN : Hundreds of thousands of people living in highly precarious conditions
For Stéphane, Handicap International’s head of mission in Pakistan, the situation facing flood victims remains highly critical.
BBC WORLD documentary on cluster munitions affecting the lives of communities in Laos PDR
From the capital Vientiane it takes 10 hours for reporter Vasanthi Hariprakesh to reach her 'square mile' ? a village next to the old Ho Chi Minh trail. Today it?s a peaceful highway for enterprising Vietnamese traders but during the war it was a target for the B-52 bombers with their deadly cargo of cluster bombs. 40% are live - called UXOs ? Unexploded Ordinance - and Hariprakesh finds the villagers? poverty leaves them no choice but to run the gauntlet of the unexploded munitions as they work in their paddy fields.
18/09/2010 at 01:30 and 08:30 GMT and 19/09/2010 at 14:30 and 20:30 GMT.
European Parliament calls on all EU Member States to join the Convention on Cluster Munitions
On 8 July, the European Parliament passed a resolution calling on European Union member states to urgently sign and ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions before the entry into force of the convention on 1 August. The resolution calls on EU member states to sign and ratify the Convention before 1 August.
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