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• Symposium launches plans to increase road safety in Turkey
  23-05-2012
  The Third National Symposium for Road Traffic Safety held in Ankara, Turkey on 16-18 May 2012 was opened by Mr İdris Naim Sahin, Minister of Interior and Mr Binali Yıldırım, Minister of Transportation, Maritime Affairs and Communication.
• Road safety project in Russian Federation targets speeding
  13-04-2012
  On 9 April 2012, WHO marked the beginning of a new phase in the road safety in 10 countries project, with the launch of a mass-media campaign to reduce speeding in Ivanovo Oblast, Russian Federation. 
• Progress toward improved road safety in Turkey
  12-03-2012
  The Road Safety in 10 Countries Project, RS10, met in Ankara, Turkey, on 28 February to discuss the progress achieved in Turkey in 2011 and to establish a workplan for 2012. This 4th Partners Meeting for the RS10 project in Turkey was attended by 55 policy makers and practitioners from Turkey together with the project's international partners.
• Turkey launches “World report on disability”
  23-02-2012
  The report, by WHO and the World Bank, was launched on 9 February 2012 in Turkey, at an event organized jointly by the authors and the Ministry of Family and Social Policy of Turkey.
• WHO/Europe draws attention to child maltreatment prevention policy briefs on violence against children
  07-02-2012
  The United Nations Secretary-General’s report on violence against children has heightened awareness in Member States of the victimization of children worldwide. In this context, the WHO Regional Office for Europe has produced policy briefings on the Public health approach to preventing child maltreatment in the WHO European Region and The cycles of violence: the key facts.
• National workshop on preventing interpersonal violence, Nicosia, Cyprus, 17-18 January 2012
  07-02-2012
  A two day national workshop on the prevention of interpersonal violence was hosted by the Ministry of Health of Cyprus with technical support from the violence and injury prevention teams of the WHO Regional Office of Europe and WHO Headquarters. Multidisciplinary stakeholders attending the meeting represented not only the health sector, but also the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare.
• Exchange programme highlights road-safety developments in Turkey and Russian Federation
  17-01-2012
  The Road Safety in 10 Countries Project, RS10, focused on seat-belt use and speed control during its first stage. Meeting in Ankara, Turkey on 7–9 December 2011, members of the project teams in Turkey and the Russian Federation discussed progress so far.
• Register for webinar: Prevention of child maltreatment and associated impairment: an evidence-based overview
  10-01-2012
  Registration is open for this WHO webinar which will take place 19 January 2012, with presentations by Dr Harriet MacMillan, Professor, Psychiatry, Behavioural Neurosciences, Pediatrics, McMaster University, Canada and Dr Christoper Mikton, WHO headquarters, Switzerland.