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More general topics concerning human and civil rights and a collection of regional, national, European and international regulations on children have also been included.
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Promoting the skills of young people to encourage their independence: a legal framework
As of 2014, the 15th of July has been recognised as World Youth Skills Day.
By doing so, the UN General...
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...
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...
How to evenly balance the right to emotional stability with the best interests of the child?
The grandparents' right to maintain a relationship with their grandchildren and to support them in...
Sports and gender discrimination. Beyond the stereotypes: the participation of girls
In Italy, sporting activity is regulated by the state and the regions in a residual manner, so that its management is...
The right of access of the non-custodial parent
How to protect the best interests of minors in private meetings
The issue addressed in the judgment of 10 November 2021 by the European Court of Human...
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...
Protection of minors' rights in civil, administrative and family law proceedings: an in-depth overview of the law
It is hard to dispute that since the approval of the Convention on the Rights of Children and...
On 16, 17 and 18 December last year, the adolescents and young people of the Youth Advisory Board (Yab) met in Milan for the third time to discuss the implementation of the Child Guarantee, an initiative by the European...
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 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 ...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016: on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and...
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...
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...