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Human Rights are important because it secures our rights as individuals and
therefore should be respected by everyone. Bullying is a serious human rights
infringement.
Everyone has the right to feel safe and be treated fairly and respectfully
and it hinders us from enjoying these rights and many more. Bullying can
affect you at home, school, and work, in your social life and in your ability
to feel happy, healthy and secure.
Victims can experience significant social isolation, feel unsafe, can lead to
emotional and physical harm, loss of self-esteem, feelings of shame and
anxiety, and concentration and learning difficulties. Tragically, violence,
harassment and bullying can lead to suicide in extreme cases.
The Anti-Bullying Act of 2013 defines bullying as any severe, or repeated use
by one or more students of a written, verbal or electronic expression, or a
physical act or gesture, or any combination thereof, directed at another
student that has the effect of actually causing or placing the latter in
reasonable fear of physical or emotional harm or damage to his property.
Every day in Philippines, 31 incidents of bullying are reported in
schools. In 2012, 6,363 complaints about bullying in both public and
private elementary and high schools. The number was about 21
percent higher than the 5,236 complaints recorded in 2013. (The
Philippine Star, 2015)
Some of your rights that could be violated or hinders us from enjoying such rights
include:
Article 2: Right to life
Bullying violates our right to life because it hinders us from
experiencing life to the fullest. Bullying in some cases make us want to
hide from the world and ignore living a happy life. Depression and
suicidal tendencies that is caused by bullying also violates this right.
Article 3: Right not be tortured or treated in an inhuman way
Some cases of extreme bullying does not make us safe because of
being treated like garbage, we feel useless and unattached with people
around us because they make us feel low. This violates this right
because we are human being and should be treated as such, physically
and verbally.
Article 10: Right to freedom of expression
People who are victims of bullying cannot enjoy this right because they
are afraid of being bullied even more. In fact, one of the reasons why
people are bullied because of differences. People who are bullied lose
their confidence and are afraid to express themselves, even to the
point of hating themselves because of it.
Article 14: Right not to be discriminated