A guide to accompany coaches and sports managers in their work to support the growth of children involved in sports activities. The publication, entitled The Protection of the Rights of Children in Sport, was presented on 20 October during the YES – Youth & Education + Sport – Right to Sport for Children seminar, which took place in...

Dreams, challenges and difficulties of a migrant teenager alone in Italy. They are told in the podcast Storia di A., dreams and battles of a migrant child alone in Italy, broadcast on Rai Radio 3 at 7.50 pm and on RaiPlay Sound from Monday 24 to Thursday 27 October. The star of the four-part podcast – produced by UNICEF in collaboration with the...

The position statement on climate justice adopted at the Network's General Assembly on 21 September is now online on the website of the European Network of Advocates for Children and Adolescents (ENOC). The position statement is a short statement in which a body or entity expresses its position on a certain topic or issue. In the document, which is...

The five guides produced by the ISMU Foundation in collaboration with the State Higher Education Institute Cine-tv Roberto Rossellini in the framework of the project Actions and governance tools for the qualification of the school system in multicultural contexts are addressed to teachers, managers and school staff. The publications...

On 6 October, in Rome, the presentation conference of the Eleventh "Indifesa" Dossier on the plight of girls and young women in Italy and in the world, organised by the non-profit organisation Terre des Hommes, will be held. An important opportunity to turn the spotlight on the different forms of discrimination, abuse, violence and exploitation...

The National Guarantor for the Rights of Persons Detained or Deprived of Liberty, Mauro Palma, and the president of Unicef Italy, Carmela Pace, signed a three-year memorandum of understanding to promote children's rights, focusing especially on the children of inmates. The agreement specifically aims to spread the culture of human rights,...

9.7% of students with a high school diploma in 2022 will find themselves in a situation of "implicit" dropping out, i.e. without the minimum skills necessary to enter the world of work or university, while 12.7% of under-18s do not even graduate from high school because they drop out. These are some of the data from Save the Children's recent report ...

Girls all over the world lag behind boys in mathematical skills, and sexism and gender stereotypes are among the main contributing factors. This is revealed in the recent Unicef report Solving the Equation: Helping Girls and Boys Learn Mathematics, which presents new analyses of data from over 100 countries and territories. According to the report...

On 14 September, in Bergamo, the event Dalla prevenzione alla cura: l’esperienza dell’Ambito territoriale di Bergamo nella lotta al maltrattamento infantile (From prevention to treatment: the experience of the Bergamo area in the fight against child abuse) will be held. A public meeting that will be an opportunity to present the work carried out in the...

For the first time, the number of students with non-Italian citizenship in Italian schools decreased from 877,000 in the 2019/2020 school year to 865,388 in the 2020/2021 school year (-1.3%). This is revealed in the Ministry of Education's new report on pupils with non-Italian citizenship, which presents data on the distribution in schools and classes of...

Much of the progress made in Lebanon towards achieving the fundamental rights of children – including the right to health, education, protection, play and recreation – has been eroded by the economic crisis and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Unicef Deprived Childhoods report. Child poverty in crisis-wracked Lebanon shows how three years of...

On 10 August 2022, the National Observatory on the Family - re-established by Minister Elena Bonetti's decree of 24 January 2020 - approved the new National Plan for the Family, a strategic document that defines the priorities, objectives and actions to be promoted for the improved conduct of family policies in our country. The...