Overview
- UNESCO marks the day with a digital-safety theme, calling for whole‑community prevention, teacher training and visible protocols tailored to online abuse.
- The agency warns that only 32 countries have comprehensive laws, with one in three students reporting physical aggression in a year and one in ten suffering cyberbullying.
- Fresh national data underline scale and harm: Mexico’s INEGI estimates 3 in 10 adolescents face school bullying, including at least half a million cases of humiliating content spread online; an Argentine study found 6 in 10 sixth‑graders experienced aggression at school or on social media.
- Experts flag evolving risks from AI, including deepfakes used to harass, which extend abuse beyond the school day and intensify reputational and mental‑health damage.
- Authorities and civil groups expand prevention and reporting drives, from Baja California’s brochures, workshops and follow‑up protocols to Spain’s Policía Nacional #Noteloguardes campaign and tens of thousands of school sessions, as research in Spain finds 67% of students step in when witnessing bullying.