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...

There is a parental control tool available to parents to protect their children from inappropriate online content, according by the new communication and information campaign designed by the Department for Family Policies and carried...

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...

In the 2021/2022 school year, 13,518 nurseries and supplementary services for early childhood are active and more than 350,000 places are authorized (48.8 per cent of which are under public ownership).

There has...

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...

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...

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...

Artificial intelligence (AI) certainly opens up new horizons for education, but urgent action is needed to integrate these new technologies according to a determined and regulated human model, not left to chance and without guidelines...

Hunger threatens over 122 million more people worldwide than in 2019, due to both the pandemic and a succession of climate disruptions and conflicts, including the war in Ukraine. According to the recent report The State of Food...

Two young people from the Youth Council of the Italian Ombudsperson for children (AGIA) also participated in the Enya 2023 Forum, which took place in Malta on 4 and 5 July.

The Forum – an event of the  Enya...

On 4 July, the inaugural meeting of the National Observatory on Childhood and Adolescence, reconstituted by decree of the Minister for the Family, Birth Rate and Equal Opportunities, Eugenia Maria Roccella, of 22 May 2023, was held in...

As always, the youngest are the stars of #Giffoni53, an international film festival for children, the result of an idea by Claudio Gubitosi, which will take place in Giffoni Valle Piana, Salerno province, from 20 to 29 July....

On 26 and 27 June, the General Assembly organised by the European Commission to launch the EU Children's Participation Platform, a platform bringing together children and adolescents from all over Europe, took place in...

On 13 June, the inaugural meeting of the new National Observatory on the Family, a technical-scientific support body for the formulation of national family policies set up at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, was held.

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...

More than 6,500 young people between the ages of 12 and 18 took part in the public consultation The Future I'd Like, carried out by the Italian Ombudsperson for children (AGIA) Carla Garlatti together with Skuola.net.

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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...

Aimed at adolescents between the ages of 16 and 18, I'm Listening, the new national online public consultation launched by the Italian Ombudsperson for children (AGIA) to understand how the quality of life of adolescents has...

Based on the latest ISTAT data, in 2022 the number of births fell below the 400,000 mark for the first time since the unification of Italy, to 393,000.

While there are many contributing factors behind the delay...

On 18 May, Care Leavers Day is celebrated to raise awareness among all citizens on the plight and needs of care leavers, young people coming out of care in the community or in foster care who, at the age of eighteen,...

The 2023 edition of the International Day of Families, to be celebrated on 15 May, is focused on the topic of Demographic Trends and Families.

An important anniversary, established in...

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...

The Guidelines for facilitating the right to study of pupils who have been adopted 2023 are online on the website of the Italian Ministry of Education and Merit.

The document updates the previous Guidelines on the...

On 20 and 21 April, the final conference of the third preparatory phase of the European Guarantee System for Vulnerable Children (Child Guarantee), a European Commission initiative aimed at promoting equal...

During the Covid-19 pandemic, vaccination coverage dropped drastically, leaving millions of children without any protection against serious childhood diseases. UNICEF's new report, The State of the World's Children: for every child...

Reading is a very important activity that should be nurtured and supported from an early age, because it stimulates the curiosity and imagination of young children and helps them develop skills and abilities.

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