Former President Carter, Desmond Tutu, President Oscar Arias of Costa Rica: 3 Nobel Peace Prize winners call for UN action on road safety today. Former Irish President and human rights chief Mary Robinson; Sonia Gandhi; former HIV/AIDS special envoy Stephen Lewis; Linda DeGutis, head of the US public health association, the world's largest. These are not people who can be ignored - they are all backing the Make Roads Safe campaign and calling for a UN ministerial conference to be approved by the UN today.
Also see the Guardian's leader column on the debate today http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/31/unitednations.internationalaidanddevelopment