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 Right Start in Life: Global levels and trends in birth registration. 2024 update” was released on 11 December 2024 and...

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 raise awareness about the challenges and opportunities of young people with a migration background. The document was...

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 inclusion of students with disabilities promoted by the Ombudsperson, which involved more than six thousand children aged...

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 conditions. These are some of the figures from the Unicef Report “The State of the World's Children 2024”, published on 20...

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 cultural change, starting with the education of the new generations, has become increasingly urgent. It is precisely to...

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 eliminate them. World Children’s Day on 20 November, the thirty-fifth anniversary of the approval of the UN Convention on the...

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 and combating a problem that has very serious consequences for the health and future of children and adolescents. This...

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 launched a new institutional communication campaign that aims to raise awareness among parents, families and adults on the issue...

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 (Istat) show that absolute poverty will remain substantially stable compared to 2022. According to the document, 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 exploitation, both in transit and in destination countries. Eva the ‘Early identification and protection 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 out in cooperation with the Department for Information and Publishing. Parental control. Protect your children's...

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 [Formazione sicura in età adolescenziale - Safe training in adolescence] project, promoted in collaboration with the...