Bullying in schools and universities is a complex social phenomenon characterised by repeated aggressive behaviour, intentional harm, and an imbalance of power between individuals or groups. It ...

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Bullying is a form of violence against children (VAC) that is prevalent in schools and educational contexts globally. Article 19 of the UN on the Rights of the Child (1989) states, "Children have the ...

Editor's note: This article pairs with 'The psychological effects of bullying.' More than one in five students were bullied in 2016 — an increase of more than five percent since the year 2000, ...

Bullying rates among middle school students in the spring of 2017 were 18 percent higher in localities where voters had favored Donald Trump than in those that had supported Hillary Clinton, according ...

Childhood bullying inflicts the same long-term psychological trauma on girls as severe physical or sexual abuse, suggests a new survey of college students led by bullying researcher. Childhood ...

While violence prevention education has increased in U.S. schools, only 1 in 10 schools today require violence prevention discussions in class, according to research presented during the American ...

The Trump administration this week quietly released an update to a major survey on civil rights in schools that was scrubbed ...

Many parents naturally assume that their child is safely in the care and supervision of their school’s teachers and administrators. While schools may try their best to protect students from various ...

The Trump administration’s latest Civil Rights Data Collection release suppresses school data on nonbinary students and ...

No longer the world’s ‘bullying capital’? The Philippines’ bullying index is still higher than average in the latest ...

Nearly half of LGBT+ pupils are bullied in school because of their gender or sexual orientation. In fact, LGBT+ bullying is the most common type of bullying in schools. Just 27% of secondary school ...