Around one-in-three young people across 30 countries, including Bangladesh, India and Myanmar, say they have been bullied online while one-in-five report that they have skipped school because of it, reports UNB.
Those are some of the key findings in a new poll released on Wednesday by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the UN Special Representative on Violence against Children.
More than 170,000 young people between the age of 13 and 24 years participated in the poll through the youth engagement tool U-Report.
The participants are from Albania, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ecuador, France, Gambia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Jamaica, Kosovo, Liberia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Moldova, Montenegro, Myanmar, Nigeria, Romania, Sierra Leone, Trinidad & Tobago, Ukraine, Vietnam and Zimbabwe.
Speaking out anonymously through U-Report, almost three-quarters of young people said social networks, including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter, are the most common place for online bullying.
"Connected classrooms mean school no longer ends once a student leaves class, and, unfortunately, neither does schoolyard bullying," said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore.
