30 years after the promulgation of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, Roberta Bosisio (University of Turin) identifies some critical issues in the current debate on children's rights: 1) the meanings attributed to the concept of childhood and children's rights; 2) the interpretation of the notion of child protection and that of children's participation; 3) the "automatic" application of the rights contained in the Convention, not taking into account the socio-economic-cultural contexts in which each child lives; 4) the impact of the Convention, i.e. the identification of indicators that allow for the assessment of the increased or reduced well-being of children following the implementation of the Convention.

Through the analysis of a number of films, Lucia Cini, an educationalist, traces a filmographic path on the rights of children taking as a starting point I bambini e noi (1970, 1978) by Luigi Comencini, an extraordinary documentary investigation carried out by interviewing children from different Italian regions, belonging to the poorest social classes, which photographed and described a country that was as deprived as it was careless.