The third edition of the Report Lavoro minorile in Italia: rischi, infortuni e sicurezza sui luoghi di lavoro (Child Labour in Italy: Risks, Accidents and Safety in the Workplace) reveals an increase in the number of child...

The climate crisis has a huge impact on everyone's life, but those who suffer the most are certainly children, because they are more vulnerable and exposed to the risks involved. Save the...

Entitled La parola ai ragazzi e alle ragazze (Giving a Voice to Young People), the first edition of the Report released by Unicef Italy contains over 12,000 responses from adolescents involved in 15 surveys on key issues that...

The 6th and 7th Monitoring Reports on the Voluntary Guardianship System prepared by the Italian Ombudsperson for Children and Adolescents are online. The Reports cover, respectively, the period from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023...

In 2024, more than 295 million people in 53 countries and territories experienced acute levels of hunger (13.7 million more than in 2023). Malnutrition, particularly child malnutrition, has reached extremely high levels in the Gaza...

The 2022 and 2023 Reports to Parliament on the coordination activity referred to in Article 17, paragraph 1, of Law no. 69 of 3 August 1998 - Provisions against the exploitation of prostitution, pornography, and sexual tourism to the...

The new Report Card 19 from the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre focuses on the well-being of children and adolescents. It presents a complex picture: on the one hand, it highlights significant improvements in children’s well-being over...

Today, women are more likely than ever to survive pregnancy and childbirth. However, recent cuts in humanitarian aid threaten progress towards ending maternal deaths.

This was denounced by Unicef, the World Bank Group and others...

Thanks to continued investment in child survival worldwide, since 2000 child deaths have fallen by more than half and stillbirths by more than a third; by 2022 child deaths had fallen slightly below 5 million for the first time.

Fifty boys and girls from the Care Leavers Network Italy brought their voices to the Senate on the occasion of the Third National Conference, promoted by the Agevolando Association.

The meeting turned the...

On the occasion of International Women's Day, Unicef, in collaboration with Plan International and UN Women, published “Girl Goals: What Has Changed for Girls? Adolescent girls’ rights over 30 years”, a report that...

WeWorld has published a report entitled “Her Future at Risk. The Cost of Humanitarian Crises on Women and Girls” highlighting how global humanitarian crises disproportionately affect women and girls, increasing poverty...

“Our Voice Counts” is the title of the new Unicef report that collects and analyses data from surveys conducted in 2024 through U-Report on The Move, the listening and participation platform designed to give a...

“2025 Global Outlook. Prospects for Children: Building Resilient Systems for Children's Futures”, the new Unicef report, is online. The publication assesses the risks that children may face in the New Year and suggests some...

“Così lontani, così vicini. Gli atteggiamenti di adolescenti e giovani nei confronti dei loro pari con background migratorio in Italia” (So Far, So Close. The Attitudes of Adolescents and Young People Towards Their Peers with a...

Once they reach adulthood, unaccompanied foreign minors face bureaucratic obstacles and difficulties in entering the job market and securing housing. The new edition of Save the Children's report “Hidden in Plain Sight...

Today, children and young people find themselves growing up in a country marked by significant local inequalities, which now affect all regions. The new Crc Group report “I diritti dell’infanzia e dell’adolescenza in Italia.I dati...

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 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...

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 (...

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...

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...

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...

The research report presents the results of the ex-post monitoring of the use by the Regions and Autonomous Provinces of the financial resources of the National Fund for Family Policies, promoted by the Department for Family Policies,...

This fourth edition reports, for the year 2020, the update of the recognition of the good practices that the Municipalities have implemented within the offer of services and interventions in the field of family policies, and financed by...

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...

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...

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...