Special clubs to be created at schools to combat dangerous internet games, online threats
The Georgian Education Ministry says that the clubs raising the children’s awareness regarding online threats will be created this year. Photo: tvc.texas.
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Special clubs will be created at schools and an active information campaign will be launched to raise children’s awareness regarding the threats coming from Internet, including dangerous online games, the Georgian Education Ministry reports.
The step follows the statement of the head of Parliament’s Human Rights Committee Sophio Kiladze last week, during the discussions around the Code on the Rights of the Child, when she stated that “urgent measures must be taken” to protect children from online threats, including the “horrible Blue Whale game which has claimed many lives.”
All the sites are blocked or restricted at schools which may affect a child or any member of a school. We will take further measures to raise the children’s awareness regarding internet threats,” the ministry says.
Several Georgian parents linked suicide of their children with the Blue Whale game.
However, the Georgian Interior Ministry did not confirm this and refused connections between the game and the death cases.
The Blue Whale is reported to be an online game pushing teenagers to commit suicide.
As it is reported by the international media and the family of victims, the game is composed of 50 tasks which must be completed in 50 days.
Very first challenges are simple, with all the following assignments becoming more and more complicated. The final challenge is to commit suicide.
The game is supposed to have started in Russia and then spread to other countries, like the US, Ukraine, India.
The Georgian police have arrested a man accused of sexually harassing adolescents online and violating their right to privacy.
With the help of UNICEF the Georgian Parliament’s Human Rights Committee has drafted the Code of the Child to respond to existing challenges in terms of children development and protection.
A majority of Georgian parents raise their children with an ‘authoritarian style’ of parenting, a UNICEF survey reports, adding that parents often employ physical and psychological punishment to discipline their children.
Social protection programmes can better identify poor families with children though poverty still remains a challenge in Georgia, UNICEF’s new Welfare Monitoring Survey says.
Georgia’s National Communications Commission has launched an internet quality control tool.
Between September 2018 and April 2019 853 prohibited items have been seized from pupils in different schools of Georgia, the Georgian Ministry of Education told the IPN news agency.
Tbilisi Court of Appeals has ruled that a spouse or parent’s speaking negatively of another parent in the presence of children is psychological violence.
The Georgian parliament has adopted the Code on the Rights of the Child which UNICEF has called a ‘groundbreaking achievement’ and an important landmark for every child in Georgia.UNICEF says that the code which was developed by the Human Rights and Civil Integration Committee of the Georgian parliament with their technical support will have a long-lasting effect on the lives of children in Georgia.
The European Union and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have launched a three-year joint project to support the protection of children’s rights in Georgia.
A project promoting introduction of media literacy in the Georgian formal education system has been launched with the aim of helping students develop critical thinking, effective communication and civic participation.