Secondary schools in Kyrgyzstan to receive OSCE-supported manual on preventing bullying

The OSCE Centre in Bishkek presented a new manual on preventing school bullying to Kyrgyzstan’s Interior Ministry on 25 November 2011.  Some 850 copies in the Kyrgyz language and further 600 in Russian will be delivered to Juvenile Delinquency Inspectors as well as among staff of schools across the country.

The manual was developed as a result of joint efforts by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, the public foundation “Children’s Rights Protectors’ League” and the Interior Ministry, as well as through roundtable discussions held earlier this year with schoolteachers.

The manual contains information on bullying among adolescents and its underlying causes, as well as recommendations and materials for activities – games and competitions -  aimed at helping adolescents build self-esteem and establish relations and trust with their peers.  The manual also contains materials for professional use by Juvenile Delinquency Inspectors with relevant extracts from Kyrgyzstan’s Penal Code.

The manual was produced with the OSCE’s support as a part of a project on protecting children’s rights within the framework of the OSCE’s Police Reform Programme for Kyrgyzstan.