The best interests of children: the protection of rights in civil, administrative, and family proceedings

Do the best interests of children always take precedence, even in cross-border disputes?

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,...

On 12 July, the Minister for Equal Opportunities and the Family, Elena Bonetti, approved the Guidelines for the Participation of Girls and Boys by decree. The document, adopted by the National Observatory for Childhood...

The parent-child relationship, amid the rights and needs for protection: meetings in a protected environment is the new initiative promoted by the Ombudsperson for Children (Agia) to carry out a review of the most...

Ending the detention of asylum seekers, refugees and migrant children across Europe. UNCHR, UNICEF and IOM repeated this in a joint study reviewing the relevant policies of European countries.

An advocacy document from which the...

An estimated 10 million children were displaced by weather-related shocks in 2020 alone. Approximately one billion (almost half of the world's 2.2 billion children), in contrast, live in 33 countries considered to be at high risk due to...

The guidelines for the participation of children and young people are intended to offer and propose a renewed look at the participation practices of children and young people, presenting some ...

The definition of guidelines to be applied uniformly throughout Italy for the removal of children with the assistance of the police following a court order or urgent referral. This is the objective of the working table promoted in...

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 ...

Advances and developments in participation and listening to children: a legal framework

Child participation in the society in which they live and in the decisions that affect them represents one of the most...

The young people who took part in the Forum entitled Let's Talk Young, Let's Talk About Climate Justice, held in Bilbao, Spain, from 28 to 30 June, tackled a very topical issue, climate justice.

The Forum - the...

The 12th Update Report on the monitoring of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Italy, produced by the hundred associations of the Group with the coordination of Arianna Saulini, of Save the Children, is online on the...

The right to access one's own origins. The mother's right to be forgotten prevails over the adoptee's right to know his or her origins.

The biological mother's alleged inability - by reason of her...

On the 11th and 12th of June, the adolescents and young people of the Youth Advisory Board (YAB) met for the second time in Rome to discuss the ongoing processes with the institutions on the priority issues dictated by the...

A survey of draft laws under discussion in Parliament on preventing and combating the abuse and mistreatment of children in the educational and school environment

Violence against children can take very...

The Report to Parliament 2021 by the Guarantor Authority for Childhood and Adolescence Carla Garlatti, available online on the website of the Authority, a key figure for the promotion and protection of children's rights...

Migrant children and adolescents, refugees, asylum seekers, both accompanied and unaccompanied: the rights and protections. A legal framework

Being a migrant, refugee or asylum-seeking child leads to the...

On 1 June, the National Observatory for Children and Adolescents approved the Guidelines for the participation of girls and boys. This is a very important document for all adults who share life experiences with young people in...

The right to health as a priority for the present and the future: a legal framework
April 7 marks World Health Day, an annual international event that is celebrated to draw attention to a topic of concern to...

Testimony of the child at the preliminary investigation stage. Evidentiary proceedings and forms of protection for children.

What protection is provided for the testimony of children in criminal proceedings...

This revised translation of the UN Convention arose from the need to highlight the great changes that have taken place in recent decades at a cultural,...

Access to information: between rights and protection. A legal framework

Ensuring access to safe...

Children's rights in the digital environment

Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment no. 25, CRC/C/GC/25 of 2 March 2021, Children's rights in relation to the digital environment

During its...

This video was made by the Department for Family Policies in support of the event celebrating the National Day of the Rights of the Child 2020.

The institution of the Day, envisaged by the Italian government by law no. 451 of...

The Agenda for the Rights of Children and Adolescents of the National Centre for Documentation and Analysis on Children and Adolescents was created with a view to accompanying,...

The video was made to celebrate World Children’s Day 2020, as part of the communication campaign run by the Department for Family Policy.

The year 2020 marks twenty-five years since the historic World Conference on Women in Beijing, which was undoubtedly an event of great significance and which laid the foundations for new challenges aimed at achieving...

The supplement to issue 1/2020 of Rassegna bibliografica is composed of a reading path entitled The approach to multidisciplinary team work in the protection of children and adolescents, edited by Antonietta Varricchio - Legal...

This Report to Parliament on the state of implementation of Law 285/1997 for the year 2017 is dedicated to a reflection on the twenty years its implementation...

Ensuring an alternative life for minors from families rooted in organized crime contexts: this is the goal of the memorandum of understanding signed on November 5 by the Minister of Education, University and Research Lorenzo Fioramonti...