European Scientific Journal November 2015 edition vol.11, No.31 ISSN: 1857 – 7881 (Print) e - ISSN 1857- 7431 473 THE BATTLE AGAINST CYBERBULLYING: A DISCURSIVE ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC POLICIES IN BRASIL Prof. Neide Aparecida Ribeiro Law School, Catholic University of Brasilia(UCB), Brasil, PhD in Education Dr. Geraldo Caliman, P.H.D Professor of the Graduate Program of the Catholic University of Brasilia(UCB) Abstract This article analyses public policies about cyberbullying in Brazil starting with an Internet investigation about bills pending in National Congress, existent legislations and UNESCO’s recommendations. The goal is to verify, by means of critical discourse analysis, to whom these policies are destined, which are the predominant discourses and the values and intentions that they represent. The problem found is in the absence of specific public policies to the cyberbullying phenomenon due to subdivisions made to wide legislations and the influence of international agencies. To decrease violence that is produced by virtual bullying, strategies are suggested, such as inserting education as protagonist of public policies that may be implemented, taking into account the human rights paradigm as a fundamental value. Keywords: Cyberbullying, Public policies, Human rights, Discourse analyses Introduction The goal of this paper is to approach the public policies that exist in Brazil related to the use of the Internet. More specifically, it deals with educational dispositions that fight cyberbullying using the discourse analysis from Michael Foucault, Isabela Fairclough and Norman Fairclough. For this task, a glimpse is taken into the conception of public policies as strategies for problem resolutions related to the virtual violence theme, taken by Rua (2009, p. 19) as “decisions and actions set related to the imperative allocation of values involving public goods.” The goods or rights are, to Santos (2014), distributive public policies, those concerning to comprehensive sectors of society that enable access, for