International STAND UP to Bullying Day is a special semi-annual event in which participants sign and wear a pink "pledge shirt" to take a visible, public stance against

bullying Bullying is the use of force, coercion, hurtful teasing or threat, to abuse, aggressively dominate or intimidate. The behavior is often repeated and habitual. One essential prerequisite is the perception (by the bully or by others) of an ...

. The event takes place in schools, workplaces, and organizations in 25 countries around the globe on the third Friday of November to coincide with

Anti-Bullying Week Anti-Bullying Week is an annual UK event held in the third week in November which aims to raise awareness of bullying of children and young people, in schools and elsewhere, and to highlight ways of preventing and responding to it. Anti-Bullying ...

, and then again on the last Friday of February.

History

The first ''International STAND UP to Bullying Day'' took place in February 2008. 236 schools, workplaces and organizations representing more than 125,000 students and staff registered to take a STAND against

by signing and wearing a special pink pledge shirt.

Host

Each participating school, workplace or organization hosts their own STAND with aid being provided by event coordinators Bully Help Initiatives, a

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-based organization committed to developing effective support structures for victims of bullying through a variety of initiatives.

Pink Shirts

Participation in the STAND constitutes the signing and wearing of a special pink ''pledge shirt''. Signing and wearing this shirt identifies a peer based support structure to victims and their bullies in a non-confrontational way. The color of the shirts is based on a campaign started by Travis Price and David Shepherd, two students who took a stand for a fellow student who was bullied for wearing a pink shirt to school.

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