The publication The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on birth rates and the condition of new generations, the second report of the Expert Group "Demography and Covid-19," established in April 2020 by Minister for Equal...

The decree ratifying the Fifth Children's Plan has been signed. On 25 January last, the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella signed the decree to ratify the Fifth National Action Plan and measures for the protection of the rights...

Today, 8 February, we celebrate Safer Internet Day 2022, the World Day for Safer Internet established by the European Commission to make girls and boys reflect on how to consciously use the web and the active role they can play by using...

6 February is World Zero Tolerance Day against Female Genital Mutilation, established by the United Nations to raise awareness of a practice that violates human rights and has very serious consequences for the...

The closure of schools due to the pandemic had a huge impact on children's learning, but also on their mental health and other aspects of their lives. The recent report The state of the global education crisis - produced...

Cyberbullying, if you talk about it you'll get help, is the claim of the third edition of the communication campaign launched on 30 January and carried out by the Department for Family Policies of the Presidency of the Council...

On 21 January, the Council of Ministers approved the final version of the Fifth National Plan of Action and Interventions for the Protection of the Rights and Development of Children and Adolescents, adopted by the National Observatory...

Education - which many children are often denied, especially in the poorest countries - is fundamental, not only for the growth of individuals, but also for the development of society as a whole, because it is the most effective tool...

The campaign video on the Single and Universal Benefit for Dependent Children is now online on the Department for Family Policies' website. It briefly illustrates the main points of the new measure for families in simple and clear...

The national conference entitled Educazione Zerosei, took place on 18 January at the Istituto degli Innocenti in Florence. Rights, quality and accessibility in the integrated system, organised by the historic Florentine...

Births in our country continue to decline. In fact, the recent Istat report on the birth rate and fertility of the resident population reveals that there will be 404,892 births in 2020, about 15,000 less than in 2019 (-3.6...

The report Levels and trends in child mortality 2021 is online on Unicef's website.

The world remains significantly behind in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals to end preventable deaths of infants and...

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

In 2019, the number of deaths between the ages of zero and five worldwide, dropped to the lowest point ever recorded in history (5.2 million, down nearly 60 percent from 12.5 million in 1990).

This was reported in the document...

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...

Births in our country continue to decline: in 2018 there were 449,000 births, 9,000 less than the previous lowest recorded in 2017. This is a finding in Istat's Demographic Indicators report, which contains estimates for the...

Among young people who have taken advantage of a service provided by the Youth Guarantee Program, one-third found a job at one month from completion, 40 percent at three months and 43 percent at six months.

This is...

The regional centres and observatories for children and adolescents were set up to meet the need for a comprehensive overview of the situation involving children and adolescents in the implementation of Law 451/1997.

In this...