Advocating for Children
Our coalition is committed to promoting safe and sustainable mobility and working together to implement solutions in support of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Providing a voice for children
The provision of safe, accessible, low-carbon transport for low income and vulnerable groups remains vital. Whilst strategic urban planning, resilient infrastructure and integrated transport are becoming recognised, the specific mobility needs and rights of children lack a voice.
Latest news
21 May 2025
New Lancet Commission calls for action to tackle threats to young people’s health and wellbeing, supported by the FIA Foundation
16 May 2025
Start With Children Summit supported by the FIA Foundation
30 April 2025
Pueblo of Jemez and Minneapolis named joint 2025 Vision Zero for Youth U.S. Leadership Award winners
21 February 2025
500 children die daily on the world’s roads, says UNICEF report
Rights of the child
With a focus on policies for safer and sustainable transportation, clean fuels and vehicles, and equitable urban development, we advocate and support practical activities to deliver these Rights of the Child.
Every child has the right to use safe roads
Every child has the right to breathe clean air
Every child has the right to an education
Every child has the right to explore and play in safety
Every child has the right to protection from violence
Every child has the right to be heard
Where We Work
Explore where our partners implement their programmatic and advocacy work under the Child Health Initiative.
Manifesto 2030: Progress Report
The report outlines the advancement that has been made by Child Health Initiative partners since the 3rd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Stockholm in 2020. It highlights the major achievements in programmatic and advocacy work, our evolving strategic focus, and our way forward towards the second half of the Decade of Action for road safety.
Toolkit
This toolkit is to support and enable the delivery of ‘safe and healthy journeys to school’ interventions. Each day millions of children worldwide face the risk of road traffic injury and are forced to breathe dangerously toxic air.
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