The third edition of the Report Lavoro minorile in Italia: rischi, infortuni e sicurezza sui luoghi di lavoro (Child Labour in Italy: Risks, Accidents and Safety in the Workplace) reveals an increase in the number of child workers in Italy. The Report was presented on 12 June by Unicef, during an online meeting promoted by the organisation on the...

The climate crisis has a huge impact on everyone's life, but those who suffer the most are certainly children, because they are more vulnerable and exposed to the risks involved. Save the Children, together with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, published the Report Born into the Climate Crisis 2. An unprecedented life: protecting children's...

The World Day Against Child Labour calls for reflection on a phenomenon that encompasses various forms of exploitation and abuse, often driven by extreme poverty, lack of access to education, and economic and political situations in which the rights of minors are not respected. This year's anniversary is dedicated to the following theme: Progress is...

Entitled La parola ai ragazzi e alle ragazze (Giving a Voice to Young People), the first edition of the Report released by Unicef Italy contains over 12,000 responses from adolescents involved in 15 surveys on key issues that affect them closely: climate change, non-discrimination, quality education, mental health and positive parenting...

The 6th and 7th Monitoring Reports on the Voluntary Guardianship System prepared by the Italian Ombudsperson for Children and Adolescents are online. The Reports cover, respectively, the period from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023 and the period from 1 January 2024 to 30 June 2024. According to the findings of the 7th Report, voluntary guardians...

In 2024, more than 295 million people in 53 countries and territories experienced acute levels of hunger (13.7 million more than in 2023). Malnutrition, particularly child malnutrition, has reached extremely high levels in the Gaza Strip, Mali, Sudan and Yemen. Almost 38 million children under the age of five were severely malnourished in 26 nutritional...

25 May is International Missing Children's Day. This is an important event that calls for maintaining strong focus on the issue, and identifying strategies to make the actions undertaken even more effective in addressing a complex phenomenon which has a profound impact not only on the families involved but also on society as a whole. On May 26 in Rome, to...

The 2022 and 2023 Reports to Parliament on the coordination activity referred to in Article 17, paragraph 1, of Law no. 69 of 3 August 1998 - Provisions against the exploitation of prostitution, pornography, and sexual tourism to the detriment of minors, as new forms of slavery - are now available online on the website of the Department for Family Policies...

The new Report Card 19 from the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre focuses on the well-being of children and adolescents. It presents a complex picture: on the one hand, it highlights significant improvements in children’s well-being over the past 25 years; on the other hand, it flags worrying trends observed in the past five years, including declines in life...

Care Leavers Day is celebrated on 18 May to raise awareness among all citizens about the situation and needs of care leavers, young people leaving care in foster homes or residential communities who, upon turning eighteen, often find themselves alone and disoriented, without a home, a job, or adequate social support. In order to invite the young people of...

The National Day Against Paedophilia and Child Pornography, which falls on 5 May, invites us to keep our attention focused on an issue that unfortunately affects many children and adolescents. With the advent of digital technology, abuses against minors have taken on new forms and have spread globally, with very serious consequences for the health and...

The new 2025-2027 National Family Plan, approved by the National Observatory of the Family on 9 December 2024, is online on the website of the Department for Family Policies of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. The Unified Conference sanctioned the agreement at its meeting on 20 March 2025. The main objective of the document is to adopt a...