UNESCO AND SCHOOL BULLYING: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

Abstract

The article, based on factual material around the world and Uzbekistan, attempts to highlight one of the pressing problems of modern schools - the problem of bullying and cyberbullying. It is common knowledge that violence and bullying in schools has become a global problem. According to UNESCO, today 34% of students aged 11-13 were bullied within a month, while 8% of schoolchildren admitted that this happened every day, sometimes even leading to fatal consequences. Due to daily bullying from classmates, some students do not want to go to class, withdraw into themselves, become irritable and passive, begin to fall behind in their studies, and sometimes even drop out of school. Considering the scale of bullying in school and its dangerous consequences for children, UNESCO, starting from 2020, officially declared the first Thursday of November as the International Day against Violence and Harassment in School Environments, recognizing violence in all its forms as a violation of the rights of children and adolescents to education, health and well-being . Activities on this day draw people's attention to global awareness of this dangerous social phenomenon. The purpose of the presented article is to conduct an analytical review of the problem of bullying in school based on empirical data from large-scale foreign national and cross-cultural studies.