CALL TO ACTION: Children´s edition of the World Report on Child Injury

Call to Action

Every year, millions of children around the world die from preventable causes. Injuries and violence are important contributors to avoidable deaths in children of all ages, especially 5-17 year old.

Here's your chance to promote and raise awareness about how to prevent injuries. Fill out the questionnaire and participate in the development of the Children´s edition of the World Report on Child Injury.

How to Participate:

Fill out the questionnaire

Entry selection:  the chosen entries will be featured in a major UNICEF publication.

Who can participate? young people from all around the world from age 8 to 25 years.

Languages: Arabic, English, French and Spanish

Personal information please provide the following personal information:
1. Your full name
2. Current age and age of injury
3. Gender
5. Country
6. Telephone number, fax number and e-mail address (if available)

Deadline: June 16, 2008

Background

To highlight the problem of injuries to policy makers, practitioners and other stakeholders, the World Health Organization and UNICEF are producing a World Report on Child Injury Prevention which will be launched in late 2008.

UNICEF is also developing a child-friendly version of the report to increase children's awareness and build their knowledge with respect to injury prevention and safety promotion. UNICEF is gathering children's opinions on injury prevention and stories that describe risky situations that led or could have led to the child being injured. Selected testimonies and opinions will be published in UNICEF's forthcoming child injury prevention report.

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