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"This report presents information on road safety from 182 countries, accounting for almost 99% of the world’s population. The report indicates that worldwide the total number of road traffic deaths remains unacceptably high at 1.24 million per year. Only 28 countries, covering 7% of the world’s population, have comprehensive road safety laws on five key risk factors: drinking and driving, speeding, and failing to use motorcycle helmets, seat-belts, and child restraints. This report serves as a baseline for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020, declared by the UN General Assembly. This is the second in a Global status report series"

This document provides guidance on water, sanitation and hygiene required in schools. The guidelines it contains are designed to be used in low-cost settings in low- and medium- resource countries, and to support the development and implementation of national policies

This report finalises each chapter of the first draft of the CBR Guidelines and decides on the layout, printing and production. Furthermore, the report addresses the dissemination strategy, fundraising strategy and the possibility to develop training packages for practitioners and design a future plan of action. This document is useful for people interested in CBR and the development of the CBR Guidelines

"The 'World Health Report 2006 - Working together for health' contains both an expert assessment of the current crisis in the global health workforce and an ambitious set of proposals to tackle it over the next ten years, starting immediately"

A short fact-sheet for parents to alert them to the signs that their child might be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder following a disaster

This meeting decided that the CBR guidelines would be a joint document of ILO, UNESCO and WHO. The members of the advisory group were finalised, and their reponsibilities were outlined to decide the content of the guidelines and its development. A revised CBR matrix was drafted. This document is useful for people interested in CBR and the development of the CBR Guidelines

In 1994 the ILO, WHO and UNESCO published the first version of this joint position paper. Since then progress has been made in several fields. Nevertheless many disabled people are still not reached or included in the fields of rehabilitation, employment or education - particularly disabled women, people with mental health problems or HIV/AIDS and poor disabled people.
This paper underlines that community-based rehabilitation is a strategy promoting multi-sectoral collaboration to reach different community groups. CBR has to be based on the principles of equal opportunities, participation and human rights.