International Children's Day

20 November 2009

Ceremonies are taking place around the world to mark the 20th anniversary of a landmark agreement protecting children. The UN says the Convention on the Rights of the Child has transformed the way children are treated.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), signed in 1989, guarantees children the right to life, to education, the right to play and to be protected from abuse.

It has the widest international support of any human rights treaty - ratified by 193 countries, with only the US and Somalia yet to give their backing.

Here in the UK, the NSPCC have produced a toolkit for keeping children safe.

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19,650 young people access CyberMentors during Anti-Bullying Week

Updated: 20 November 2009

Thousands of young people accessed online help from the CyberMentors website in the first two days of Anti-Bullying Week. Around a quarter of new users came to us from our YouTube channel; which has notched up over 75,000 views of the N-Dubz anthem. Many other young users found their way to the website via a wide range of on and offline press coverage.

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Beatbullying publishes its cyberbullying report

16 November 2009

The true extent of cyberbullying among young people in the UK is revealed today by Beatbullying in the publication of our report, ‘Virtual Violence: Protecting Children from Cyberbullying’. In particular, the report highlights the number of extreme cases where a young person is persistently and systematically cyberbullied, even receiving death threats online.

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Check out the press coverage on the BBC: Radio 1 Newsbeat, FiveLive, BBC interview with Rory-Cellan Jones, and the Daily Mirror.

Beatbullying launches major new campaign with the News of the World

15 November 2009

As Anti-Bullying Week begins, we look back at a year scarred by reports of teenagers taking their own lives. Children who were, at times, so viciously targeted by bullies in their schools and on their computer screens they could no longer cope. Today, together with the News of the World, Beatbullying demands a firm response from the social networking industry and a formalisation of intent by all political parties to rise to the challenge of protecting our children from bullying and child-on-child violence. 

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YouTube teams up with Beatbullying to support Anti-Bullying Week 2009

14 November 2009

YouTube has signed up to become an official training partner for leading children’s charity Beatbullying on its peer mentoring social networking site CyberMentors and is supporting Anti-Bullying Week with online promotions and an event in Google's London HQ.

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