dr geoffrey shannon special rapporteur on child protection human rights standards related to school...
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DR GEOFFREY SHANNONSPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON CHILD
PROTECTION
Human Rights Standards Related to
School Bullying
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Human Rights Standards Related to School Bullying
Achieving a human rights framework Bias based bullying Child centred Hope Dignity Us v’s them Kinship
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Human Rights Standards Related to School Bullying
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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Human Rights Standards Related to School Bullying
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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Human Rights Standards Related to School Bullying
European Convention on Human Rights Article 3 Article 8
European Convention on the Exercise of Children’s Rights
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Human Rights Standards Related to School Bullying
The EU TreatiesThe Charter of Fundamental Rights
Article 24 Article 52(3)
Non-discrimination
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Human Rights Standards Related to School Bullying
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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Human Rights Standards Related to School Bullying
Article 3, CRC
General Comment No. 12
General Comment No. 14
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Human Rights Standards Related to School Bullying
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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Human Rights Standards Related to School Bullying
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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Human Rights Standards Related to School Bullying
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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Human Rights Standards Related to School Bullying
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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Human Rights Standards Related to School Bullying
General Comment No. 1
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Human Rights Standards Related to School Bullying
Bullying – definitional problem
Cyber-bullying
Homophobic and transphobic bullying
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Human Rights Standards Related to School Bullying
Mental health
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Human Rights Standards Related to School Bullying
Liability of schools
Anti-bullying policy
Code of behaviour
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Human Rights Standards Related to School Bullying
Prevention - whole school approach - active involvement of key
stakeholders
Change attitudes
Teaching children about their human rights
Anonymity
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Human Rights Standards Related to School Bullying
Strategies to support LGBT young people to remain in schools
Law and technology
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Human Rights Standards Related to School Bullying
19 States in United States – anti-bullying legislation
New South Wales
Massachusetts
Sanction – a solution?
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