World Day of Remembrance 2016
#WDR2016 – Sunday, 20th November!
The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (#WDR) is commemorated on the third Sunday of November each year – to remember the many millions killed and injured on the world’s roads, together with their families, friends and many others who are also affected. It is also a Day on which we thank the emergency services and reflect on the tremendous burden and cost of this daily continuing disaster to families, communities and countries, and on ways to halt it.
2016 – WDR Social Media Hashtag is: #WDR2016
If your organisation hasn’t yet sent details of last year’s Events, please do so via this link HERE:
Are there Memorials to road victims in your country? Please send us photographs and details.
Maybe you like to work towards a National Memorial? Find information link HERE:
We are preparing a second Wall of Remembrance for #WDR2016,
Please send photographs of road crash victims not included before to: media@worlddayofremembrance.org
Every year, FEVR’s WDR Team creates the official WDR poster, video and creative materials according to WDR Theme of the year. Translated in many languages, the poster, video and other creative materials can be downloaded, printed/shared from our website to promote the day around the world.
This is a free-of-charge service. We only request not to remove WDR and FEVR logo on the poster, video and other creative materials, so that we can reach all the Road Crash Victims around the world and be able to help and support them.
And please remember to include our website link ( worlddayofremembrance.org ) when you share on social media & web.
Looking forward to your contributions!
FEVR’s WDR Team
The World Day of Remembrance has a long history:
- From 1995, road victim organisations under the umbrella of the European Federation of Road Traffic Victims (FEVR) observed this Day together – first as European Day of Remembrance, but soon as World Day when NGOs from Africa, South America and Asia, who were associated members of FEVR, joined.
- Therefore FEVR is the creator and first owner of the World Day of Remembrance. Already from 2000, the Pope and other religious leaders remembered road victims worldwide on the 3rd Sunday of November, calling it ‘World Day’.
- 10 years later – on 26th October 2005 – the World Day was adopted by the UN General Assembly as “the appropriate acknowledgement for victims of road traffic crashes and their families”.
In 2015 we celebrated the 20th anniversary of observing the World Day internationally and the 10th anniversary of the World Day being adopted by the United Nations.
WHO & UN support FEVR in Promoting WDR Global Recognition
