Human Rights Standards Related to School Bullying
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Human Rights Standards
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DR GEOFFREY SHANNON
SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON CHILD PROTECTION
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Achieving a human rights framework
Bias based bullying
Child centred
Hope
Dignity
Us v’s them
Kinship
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International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Article 24 – the right of children to equality
International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights
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United Nations Convention on the Rights of the
Child
3 optional protocols
17 General Comments
Articles 2, 3, 6 and 12 guiding principles of the
Convention
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European Convention on Human Rights
Article 3
Article 8
European Convention on the Exercise of Children’s
Rights
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The EU Treaties
The Charter of Fundamental Rights
Article 24
Article 52(3)
Non-discrimination
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Article 2(2), CRC
States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that
the child is protected against all forms of discrimination or
punishment on the basis of the status, activities, expressed
opinions, or beliefs of the child’s parents, legal guardians, or
family members.
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Article 3, CRC
General Comment No. 12
General Comment No. 14
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Article 16, CRC
No child shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference
with his or her privacy, family, or correspondence, nor to
unlawful attacks on his or her honour and reputation.
The child has the right to the protection of the law against such
interference or attacks.
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Article 19, CRC
Such protective measures should, as appropriate, include
effective procedures for the establishment of social programmes
to provide necessary support of the child and for those who have
the care of the child, as well as for other forms of prevention and
for identification, reporting, referral, investigation, treatment
and follow-up of instances of child maltreatment described
heretofore, and, as appropriate, for judicial involvement.
General Comment No. 4
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The right to education
Article 26(1) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 2 of the First Protocol to the ECHR
• No one shall be denied the right to education
Article 13 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights
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Child’s right to education
Principle 7 of the 1959 Declaration of the Rights of the Child
Article 28, CRC
Article 29, CRC
Education of the child and the development of respect for human
rights and fundamental freedoms
Vienna Declaration
UN Millennium Declaration
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General Comment No. 1
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Bullying – definitional problem
Cyber-bullying
Homophobic and transphobic bullying
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Mental health
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Liability of schools
Anti-bullying policy
Code of behaviour
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Prevention - whole school approach
- active involvement of key stakeholders
Change attitudes
Teaching children about their human rights
Anonymity
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Strategies to support LGBT young people to remain
in schools
Law and technology
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19 States in United States – anti-bullying legislation
New South Wales
Massachusetts
Sanction – a solution?
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