Accused of bullying staff, top brass at Amnesty International offer to quit
Thomson Reuters Foundation Apologising for a workplace climate of bullying, harassment and public humiliation, top officials at the influential rights group Amnesty International offered to resign in a letter made public on Friday. Working conditions at Amnesty were exposed in a review, launched after the suicides of two staff members last year, that found “organizational […]
Almost one in three young teens have experienced bullying at school, report finds
Almost a third of young teenagers – some 130 million children – around the world have recently experienced bullying at school, according to a UN report. The report, released last week by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, found that 32 per cent of students say they have been bullied by peers at school on one or more […]
Rock star Bono ‘deeply sorry’ over bullying claims at his charity
Thomson Reuters Foundation Irish rock star Bono apologised at the weekend over claims that staff at an anti-poverty charity he set up were bullied and intimidated, in the latest case of staff misconduct at a leading global charity. Bono said he was “furious” to hear a string of accusations of bad conduct within the ONE […]
ESSAY: SEXUAL MISCONDUCT, NON-APOLOGIES AND TRIAL BY SOCIAL MEDIA
Writing from London, MAL FLETCHER asks some key questions he believes aren’t being given enough of an airing in the current discussion over sexual harassment in the workplace taking place in numerous countries including the UK, US and Australia…
Violence affects three in four children globally, report says
Thomson Reuters Foundation From fist fights at school to murder and sexual abuse, each year nearly three in four children worldwide experience some form of violence, which has long term health and economic costs, a report said on Tuesday. The study by India-based advocacy group Know Violence in Childhood found that an estimated 1.7 billion […]
Australian Christian Lobby “cautiously welcomes” calls for new national anti-bullying program
UPDATE (3rd May): The petition has since been withdrawn with organiser, Ben Grubb, a former technology editor for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, issuing a public apology “for the pain it has caused to many in the LGBTI community”. The Australian Christian Lobby has “cautiously welcomed” calls for a “non-ideological national anti-bullying program” in […]
Nine out of 10 young people believe bullying is a pervasive problem, poll finds
At least nine out of 10 young people from 18 countries across the globe believe bullying is a pervasive problem within their communities with two-thirds saying they have experienced it firsthand, according to a new poll. More than 100,000 young people aged between 13 and 30 years and coming from countries including Mexico, Uganda, Ireland […]