The National Office against Racial Discrimination (Unar), the Unicef Office for Europe and Central Asia in Italy and the Italian Committee for Unicef have signed a three-year memorandum of understanding to promote an inclusive culture...

The rights to play and social interaction of children and young people: a legal framework

Play and social interaction are also essential human rights, long recognised for every single child, boy and girl. At an...

Michela Vittoria Brambilla is the new president of the Parliamentary Commission for Childhood and Adolescence, which took office on 25 July.

The Commission – set up by Law 451/1997 and composed of twenty...

The right to food and food security as fundamental rights of the children: a legal framework

One of the internationally guaranteed human rights is the right to food, acknowledged for the first time in Article 25...

Children and young people's right to education: a legal framework

The right to education is an undeniable human right to be placed within the framework of...

This is a guide to help officials of local and national institutions, school headteachers, teachers and other professionals to establish or strengthen Children's and Youth Councils, bodies composed of under-18s appointed to become their...

The Agenda for Children and Adolescents. 10 steps to make a practical commitment to the new generations is online on the website of the CRC Group (Working Group for the Convention on the Rights of Children and...

The severe crisis we are experiencing, exacerbated by the conflict in Ukraine and the Covid-19 pandemic, affects everyone, but we must not forget that children and adolescents pay the highest price. This is precisely why it is crucial...

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...

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,...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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

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...

The thematic path, of Rassegna bibliografica supplement 4/2017, deals with the theme of all children's right to play. Gianfranco Staccioli, a well-known pedagogue and author of numerous books on the educational and formative...

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...

Publication, promoted by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies and realised by Istituto degli Innocenti of Florence in the framework of the activities of the National Centre for Documentation and Analysis on Childhood and...

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...

The first issue of the journal for 2007 presents a thematic reading on children's rights. If it is true that the level of civilisation of a society can be judged on the basis of the attention and care given to its less privileged...

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...