Accor-ding to a report published in March 2021 by Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), 30 percent of children have experienced various forms of online harassment during the Covid-19 pandemic. The study was conducted in five districts Dhaka, Chattogram, Rajshahi, Cox s Bazar and Satkhira. Among the victims of harassment, 56.25 percent are girls. Forty-one percent of these children informed their parents about the harassment and 12 percent refused to talk about their experiences. Legal steps have been taken in only six percent of these cases.
According to a pre-pandemic survey of ASK published in early 2020, 8.39 percent of girl children had experienced online harassment. However, in 2021, this number increased by over four times. Globally, children are spending excessive amounts of time online during the pandemic, which has created concerns.
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The real and intangible threat of online child harassment
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Enough time has finally passed for us to collectively reflect on how much, and in what ways, the Covid-19 pandemic has changed our usual lives. Students, in particular, have encountered a drastic shift in how they experience their education and as a result, the internet. With classes slowly moving into the cyber sphere last year, students, teachers, and parents/guardians had to try and often failed to adjust to the uncharted territory of online education.
Many students have been deprived of online classes, mainly due to lack of access to necessary digital devices and poor or no internet connectivity in certain areas of the country. But those who have had access to these classes have also faced a host of new issues, not the least of those being online harassment.