Stand by the nervous system.

In 2015, the Institute of Spinal Cord Injury, Iceland (ISCI) embarked on a collection of signatures in Iceland, together with 6 associations of groups involved with damages and diseases of the spinal cord, under the slogan: Stand by the nervous system. Approximately 26,000 people signed the petition sent to Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the then-Secretary-General of the United Nations. The letter requested that the Secretary-General use his influence to ensure that increased understanding of the manner in which the nervous system operates be made one of the development goals of the United Nations. This attempt, however, was not successful. Instead, Iceland achieved the milestone of adding to the policy declaration to 2030 that improvements should be made to neurological treatments as well as adding substantive issues on brain and spinal cord injury to the resolutions of the United Nations as regards road safety. The President of Iceland of Iceland at that time, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, and former President of Iceland, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, the patroness of ISCI, supported the petition; you can access interviews with them by clicking the link below.