Despite the significant progress made worldwide in ensuring legal identity, today 150 million children under the age of 5 (approximately 2 out of 10) remain invisible because they are not registered at birth. The new Unicef Report “The...

The aim of the Manifesto delle Nuove Generazioni Italiane 2025 (2025 Manifesto of the New Italian Generations), which will be presented on 13 December in Rome, is to be a reference tool to promote social inclusion and...

The Report by Carla Garlatti, the Italian Ombudsperson for Children (Agia), entitled “Scuola e inclusione: dico la mia” (School and Inclusion: I Have My Say). The document presents the results of the public consultation on the school...

Almost half of the world's children - around one billion - live in countries at high risk of climate and environmental crises; since 2022, 400 million students in the world have experienced school closures due to extreme weather...

Today marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. A serious emergency, as evidenced by the numerous incidents reported in the media. In order to counter the rising tide of gender-based violence, a profound...

Despite the achievements on the rights of children and adolescents, not all minors have the same opportunities: inequalities are growing, with inevitable repercussions on society as a whole, and there is still a long way to go to...

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...

In 2023 there were just over 2.2 million households in absolute poverty and almost 5.7 million individuals in the same condition. The data of the recent Report on the phenomenon prepared by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (...

6 February marks the Safer Internet Day (SID), the World Day for Internet Security established by the European Commission. This is an important opportunity to make children and adolescents reflect not only on the conscious use of the...

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...