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The Fifth National Action Plan for the protection of the rights and the development of children and adolescents has been approved by the National Observatory for childhood and adolescence ...
The Children and Adolescents version of the Report of the Italian Government to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (reference period 2008-2016) is produced by Istituto degli Innocenti of Florence as part of the activities...
Fourth National Action Plan for Children and Adolescents, approved by the Council of Ministers on 10 August 2016, after the green light of the National Observatory for childhood and adolescence, was...
Third National Action Plan was approved on January 21, 2011 by decree of the President of the Republic and published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale (Official Gazette) of May 9, 2011, General...
This publication presents the data collected through a survey on a nationally and regionally representative sample of 21,527 male and female students of the first and third years of lower secondary school and of the second year of...
What thoughts and perceptions do children and young people have about their rights and in particular about their right to have an active role in the different areas of their daily lives? With the aim of developing reflection and...
Costruire senso, negoziare spazi - Ragazze e ragazzi nella vita quotidiana (Building sense, negotiating spaces - Adolescents in daily life) is the title of Quaderno n. 50 of the National Centre. The publication presents the...
The Third and fourth reports of the Italian Government on the condition of childhood and adolescence in Italy were sent to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in the original English version on 22 January 2009. The Italian...
With the National Action Plan for the protection of the rights and the development of children and adolescents 2002-2004, the Government confirms the attention to children and adolescents as...
The 2000-2001 National Action Plan contains the basic strategic lines that the Government intends to pursue to develop an adequate policy for childhood and adolescence and concrete commitments, which are added to the...
The Government's Action Plan for Children and Adolescents 1997-1998 was intended to initiate new institutional developments that, in strengthening attention to the issues of childhood and adolescence, would make it produce...
The regional centres and observatories for children and adolescents were set up to meet the need for a comprehensive overview of the situation involving children and adolescents in the implementation of Law 451/1997.
In this...
The second report to the United Nations presented by the Italian Government on the application in Italy of the Convention on the Rights of the Child emphasises that improving the lives of children and supporting their right to...
The 1996 Report on the condition of children and adolescents in Italy mainly focuses on difficult situations which may jeopardize the children’s process of development.
As established in the agreement signed with the Department...