Protecting Children From Bullying

A/RES/71/176View PDF

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 64aPromotion and protection of the rights of children, published in 2016.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 2015–2023

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/77/201

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2015A/RES/69/158Protecting children from bullying

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What subjects does this mandate have?

3 topics

Child Abuse Harassment Information Dissemination

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report of the Secretary-General submitted under this mandate, 2018.

2018A/73/265Protecting children from bullying report of the Secretary-General

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What does this mandate say?

17 operative paragraphs

Calls upon Member States:

To take all appropriate measures to prevent and protect children, including in school, from any form of violence, including forms of bullying, by promptly responding to such acts, and to provide appropriate support to children affected by and involved in bullying;

To continue to promote and invest in education, including as a long-term and lifelong process by which everyone learns tolerance and respect for the dignity of others and the means and methods of ensuring such respect in all societies;

To develop and implement, as appropriate, measures and restorative practices to repair harm, restore relationships, avoid recidivism, promote the accountability of perpetrators and change aggressive behaviour;

To generate statistical information and data disaggregated by sex, age and other relevant variables at the national level, and to provide information on disability, with regard to the problem of bullying, as a basis on which to elaborate effective public policies;

To adopt and strengthen, as appropriate, clear and comprehensive measures, including, where required, legislation, that seek to prevent and protect children from bullying and provide for safe and child-sensitive counselling and reporting procedures and safeguards for the rights of affected children;

To strengthen the capacities of schools in early detection and response to prevent and respond to bullying, including cyberbullying, in particular initiatives to mobilize support to prevent and address this phenomenon, and to ensure that children are informed of any existing public policies to secure their protection;

To raise public awareness, involving family members, legal guardians, caregivers, young people, schools, communities, community leaders and the media, as well as civil society organizations, with the participation of children, regarding the protection of children from bullying;

To involve children in the development of initiatives to prevent and address bullying, including available support services and safe, accessible, age- and child-sensitive, confidential and independent counselling and reporting mechanisms, and to inform them of available mental and physical health-care services and procedures in place to support them, where they exist, and encourages Member States to make such support services available;

To share national experiences and best practices for preventing and tackling bullying, including cyberbullying;

Encourages Member States to continue to share with the Secretary-General, through existing processes and mechanisms, information about any initiatives undertaken at the national or subnational level to prevent and address bullying, including cyberbullying, to promote peaceful social interaction with a view to assessing progress, and to make use of the results achieved;

Also encourages Member States to adopt appropriate measures, such as plans of action on the prevention of and response to bullying, drawing on the experience of Member States, the United Nations, regional organizations, academia and civil society actors and taking into account related recommendations of the entities of the United Nations system;

Welcomes the continued collaboration of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children with human rights bodies and mechanisms, within their respective mandates, including the special procedures mandate holders of the Human Rights Council, in order to support efforts to prevent and address violence against children, including bullying;

Invites the Secretary-General, within existing resources, to facilitate further international efforts, in collaboration with Member States, to raise awareness of bullying, including through existing initiatives of United Nations specialized agencies, funds and programmes;

Requests the Secretary-General, within existing resources, to support, in cooperation with United Nations agencies and other relevant stakeholders, the organization of follow-up expert consultations at the regional level, promoted by Member States, upon their request, to raise awareness of the impact of bullying on the rights of the child and to share experiences and best practices in order to ensure the protection of children from bullying, to be pursued in line with the Convention on the Rights of the Child1 and the recommendations contained in his report;5

Also requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-third session a report on the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to continue its consideration of the question at its seventy-second session under the item entitled “Promotion and protection of the rights of children”.

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