
In this section you can find contents concerning children who experience or have experienced conditions of difficulty, marginalization and violence and are therefore more likely to experience a problematic development. These complex situations often give rise to even greater discomfort and social marginalization, to aggressiveness towards peers and adults, to a spiral of violence generating more violence, and to bullying. Children experiencing such situations often end up in the juvenile justice system, as either child offenders or victims.
In this section you can search for different types of materials, starting from those representing the legal foundations on this topic and concerning the juvenile penitentiary system, the conditions of children in detention and children of detained parents, as well as the topic of juvenile justice from a more general perspective.
You can also find contents concerning the complex topics of drug, alcohol and gambling addictions and child labour.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Department for Family Policies has announced the beginning of the work to define the National Plan for Preventing and Combating Bullying and Cyberbullying. This plan aims to strengthen protection measures for minors...
Once they reach adulthood, unaccompanied foreign minors face bureaucratic obstacles and difficulties in entering the job market and securing housing. The new edition of Save the Children's report “Hidden in Plain Sight...
The European Day for the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, established by the Council of Europe (CoE) in 2015, is celebrated on 18 November. This significant event encourages everyone to reflect on preventing...
Cyberbullying is increasingly prevalent among young people, in different forms and with risks that are often still underestimated. To combat it, the Department for Family Policies of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers has...
The term “care leavers” refers to a diverse category of young people who, on reaching the age of 18, live outside their families of origin due to an order issued by a judicial authority.
The category of...
Protection of Children from Virtual Pornography. When Does the Reproduction of Artificial Content Become a Criminal Offence?
The need for appropriate legal instruments to combat all forms of sexual...
Trafficking in human beings has similar characteristics all over the world: migrants, recruited in their countries of origin with the promise of better living conditions in the European Union, often become victims of various forms of...
New perspectives in protection against bullying and cyberbullying
Bullying and cyberbullying are closely related manifestations that cause concern because of their escalation in recent years and the harm caused...
The national survey entitled Il lavoro regolare minorile tra formazione e sicurezza [Regular child labour between training and safety], carried out by the Childhood and Adolescence Supervisory Authority as part of the Fase...
The Frontier of Rights is Unicef's new report on under-18 migrants and refugees, an overview of unaccompanied foreign minors in Italy and the main landing and transit sites where the organization is active, from the southern to...
The Guide for children and youngsters, Girls and Boys alike, to the National Plan for Preventing and Combating Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Minors (2022-2023), produced by the Department for Family Policies of the...
Called Empowering the Next Generation, the programme promoted by Unicef and the AVSI Foundation to guarantee opportunities for learning, inclusion, psychosocial well-being and protection to 600 Ukrainian children and...
In our country, four out of ten children who take part in sport are victims of violence in the sporting context.
Children and young people suffer psychological violence (30%), physical violence (19%), neglect (15%) and sexual...
In 2022, there were 69,601 workers aged between 15 and 17 in our country, up from 51,845 in 2021.
This was revealed in the report Child labour in Italy: risks, accidents and safety in the workplace, published on 12 June...
In many countries stricken by war, funding for the protection of children in armed conflicts does not keep up with the growing number of families and children at risk.
The Save the Children report Unprotected: An Analysis of...
Child labour involves various types of exploitation and abuse, often caused by conditions of extreme poverty, lack of schooling opportunities, and economic...
International protection is a general form of asylum law and, like adults, children are also entitled to be covered by international protection systems.
The right to asylum – recognised by...
To mark the National Day against Paedophilia and Child Pornography on 5 May, introduced by Italian law 41/2009 to focus attention on an often-hidden phenomenon affecting many children and young people, with very serious consequences on...
Save the Children's new survey It's not a game is dedicated to child labour in Italy. The research shines the spotlight on a global phenomenon that also affects our country, in a widespread way but still largely undetected and unseen,...
Informing and raising awareness about online bullying, underlining the support of institutions to victims and the commitment of public administrations to combat the phenomenon to ensure greater online safety of children and young people...
The Report to Parliament on the coordinated activity referred to in article 17, paragraph 1, of Italian Law no. 269 of 3 August 1998 (Regulations against the exploitation of prostitution, pornography and sex tourism to the...
As of 31 December 2021, the number of unaccompanied foreign children and adolescents increased by 73%, while the number of voluntary guardians registered in the Juvenile Court lists remained substantially stable (-0.35...
National Plan for the Prevention and Combating of Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of children
This National Plan, which is the second adopted since the law was enacted, is the result of a broadly...
Preventing and combating violence against girls and young women: a legal framework
Violence against girls and young women is a wide-ranging and very complex problem. The dynamics, the developments, and the...