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expression, and to provide appropriate support to victims affected by and involved in
cyberbullying;
(b)
To establish well-trained and well-resourced bodies in charge of preventing,
countering and addressing the adverse effects of cyberbullying, or strengthen such units if
they already exist, and to provide them with adequate financial support and capacity-building
and specialist training opportunities;
(c)
To promote inclusive, comprehensive and quality education and education
opportunities for persons with disabilities, in particular children with disabilities, without
discrimination of any kind, to foster, inter alia, digital literacy and the technical skills required
to protect their privacy effectively;
(d)
To continue to promote and invest in education and training, including human
rights education, as a long-term and lifelong process through which everyone learns equality,
non-discrimination, non-violence, tolerance, inclusion and respect for the dignity of others
and the means and methods of ensuring such respect in all societies, including in digital
contexts;
(e)
To expand, as appropriate, comprehensive training across social sectors on
countering cyberbullying against persons with disabilities, including in workplaces,
healthcare and law enforcement, as well as in schools and in care settings for children with
disabilities;
(f)
To generate and analyse statistical information and data disaggregated, where
available at the national level, by gender, age, disability, race, socioeconomic status, national
or ethnic origin and other characteristics relevant in national contexts, with regard to the
problem of cyberbullying, as a basis upon which to elaborate and promote effective evidencebased public policies;
(g)
To encourage and incentivize research on the impact of cyberbullying on
persons with disabilities, the efficacy of interventions aimed at countering cyberbullying, the
risks and impacts of cyberbullying faced by persons with disabilities and the intersectional
risks and impacts;
(h)
To integrate online protection into national policies to combat exploitation,
violence and abuse and to adopt and strengthen, as appropriate, clear and comprehensive
measures, including where relevant legislation, that are aimed at preventing and protecting
persons with disabilities from cyberbullying;
(i)
To support the provision of safe, child-, gender- and disability-sensitive
counselling and reporting procedures and safeguards for the rights of affected persons with
disabilities, including children with disabilities, by considering, among other actions, the
empowerment of a public authority to receive complaints regarding cases of cyberbullying
and, where appropriate, to intercede with content hosts to request that the relevant material
be promptly removed;
(j)
To take specific actions to encourage and expand reporting of cyberbullying,
including through effective education and training, and to ensure that reporting platforms and
channels are accessible to all persons with disabilities, including children with disabilities;
(k)
To encourage a clear and predictable legal and regulatory environment, which
requires information and communications technology and other relevant industries to respect
human rights, including those of persons with disabilities, by, among other actions,
strengthening regulatory agencies’ responsibility for the development of standards for the
protection of the rights of persons with disabilities and, in partnership with relevant civil
society organizations, including organizations of persons with disabilities, providing
guidance, as appropriate, to digital technology companies on the rights and needs of persons
with disabilities, including the specific challenges that they face in mitigating and as a result
of cyberbullying;
(l)
To involve and provide persons with disabilities with the opportunity to
inclusively and meaningfully participate in the development of initiatives to prevent and
address cyberbullying, including available support services and safe, accessible, age- and
child-sensitive, confidential and independent counselling and reporting mechanisms;
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