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\u0418\u0437\u0432\u043e\u0440: WUNRN \u2013 06.11.2020<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Psychological abuse is more common among girls,<\/strong> UNESCO continued, after\u00a0 identifying \u201cisolating, rejecting, ignoring, insults, spreading rumours, making up lies, name-calling, ridicule, humiliation and threats\u201d as typical treatment.<\/em><\/p>\n

5 November 2020 – <\/strong>Children face violence and bullying at school all over the world, with one in every three students subject to attacks at least once a month and one in 10, a victim of cyberbullying, UNESCO said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The warning from\u00a0UNESCO<\/a>, the UN organization for education, science and culture, based on 2019 data, coincides with the first\u00a0International Day against Violence and Bullying at School – Including Cyberbullying<\/a>, on 5 November.<\/p>\n

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\u201cRecent attacks on schools in Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Pakistan, and the assassination of teacher Samuel Paty in France, sadly underscore the critical issue of protecting our schools from all forms of violence,\u201d said UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay, in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u2018Neglected, minimised or ignored\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tackling bullying is also key to the protection of students, Ms. Azoulay continued, describing it as a \u201cblight\u201d that was \u201cneglected,\u00a0 minimized\u00a0 or\u00a0 ignored\u201d, even though it inflicted \u201cphysical and emotional suffering on millions of children around the world\u201d.<\/p>\n

Given the scale of school violence and bullying highlighted in a 2019 report by UNESCO covering 144 countries, Ms. Azoulay\u00a0insisted<\/a>\u00a0on the need to raise global awareness and put a stop to both problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs students, parents, members of the educational community and ordinary citizens, we have all a part to play in stopping violence and bullying in schools”, she maintained.<\/p>\n

Outside chance<\/strong><\/p>\n

The consequences of bullying can have devastating consequences on academic achievement, school dropout, and physical and mental health, the UN education agency said in a\u00a0statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It defined bullying as aggressive behaviour that involves unwanted, negative actions repeated over time and an imbalance of power or strength between the perpetrators and the victims.<\/p>\n

\u201cChildren who are frequently bullied are nearly three times more likely to feel like an outsider at school and more than twice as likely to miss school as those who are not frequently bullied,\u201d UNESCO said. \u201cThey have worse educational outcomes than their peers and are also more likely to leave formal education after finishing secondary school.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cyberbullying on the rise<\/strong><\/p>\n

Highlighting that cyberbullying is on the rise, the UN organization attributed this to the\u00a0COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0pandemic, as more students than ever were \u201cliving, learning and socializing online\u201d. This had led to an \u201cunprecedented increase in screen time and the merging of online and offline worlds\u201d, heightening youngsters\u2019 vulnerability to bullying and cyberbullying.<\/p>\n

While bullying is most often carried out by children\u2019s peers, in some cases teachers and other school staff are believed to be responsible. Corporal punishment is still permitted in schools in 67 countries, UNESCO noted.<\/p>\n

Physical bullying is the most frequent type of bullying in many regions – with the exception of North America and Europe, where psychological bullying is most common.<\/p>\n

Sexual bullying – including\u00a0hostile sexual jokes, comments or gestures – is the second most common form of harassment at school in many regions.<\/p>\n

Although school violence and bullying affect male and female students, physical bullying is more common among boys.<\/p>\n

A person\u2019s physical appearance is the most common cause of bullying, students reported, followed by their race, nationality or skin colour.<\/p>\n

Psychological abuse is more common among girls, UNESCO continued, after\u00a0 identifying \u201cisolating, rejecting, ignoring, insults, spreading rumours, making up lies, name-calling, ridicule, humiliation and threats\u201d as typical treatment.<\/p>\n

Not a rite of passage<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dismissing the widely held belief that bullying is a rite of passage for youngsters and that little can be done to eradicate it, UNESCO insisted that dozens of countries had made great progress in addressing the problem.<\/p>\n

A political desire for change was key, it noted, along with promoting a caring school environment, training for teachers and mechanisms to report bullying and support for affected students.<\/p>\n

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\u0418\u0437\u0432\u043e\u0440: WUNRN \u2013 06.11.2020 Psychological abuse is more common among girls, UNESCO continued, after\u00a0 identifying \u201cisolating, rejecting, ignoring, insults, spreading rumours, making up lies, name-calling, ridicule, humiliation and threats\u201d as typical treatment. 5 November 2020 – Children face violence and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vesti","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthrights.mk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_series&post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}