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UNITED NATIONS, June 25 -- The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization issued the following news release:
Children 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. They are also more likely to expect to leave formal education after finishing secondary school. Children who are bullied score lower in mathematics and reading tests, and the more often they are bullied the worse their score.
For these reasons and more, UNESCO joined the International Bullying Prevention Association, Friends International Centre Against Bullying, and the National Anti-Bullying Research and Resource Centre (ABC) at Dublin City University, which is also the UNESCO Chair on Tackling Bullying in Schools and Cyberspace, to co-organize the World Anti-Bullying Forum (WABF) in Dublin, Ireland from 4 - 6 June.
Aimed at broadening understanding of bullying in educational settings, the World Anti-Bullying Forum drew together practitioners, researchers and decision-makers from around the world.
UNESCO hosted sessions on the role of schools in preventing and addressing cyberbullying, approaches to address bullying related to migration and conducted a plenary presentation on the new UNESCO report, Behind the Numbers: Ending School Violence and Bullying.
Chief of UNESCO Health and Education, Christopher...