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 and the period from 1 January 2024 to 30 June 2024. According to the findings of the 7th Report, voluntary guardians...

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 Strip, Mali, Sudan and Yemen. Almost 38 million children under the age of five were severely malnourished in 26 nutritional...

25 May is International Missing Children's Day. This is an important event that calls for maintaining strong focus on the issue, and identifying strategies to make the actions undertaken even more effective in addressing a complex phenomenon which has a profound impact not only on the families involved but also on society as a whole. On May 26 in Rome, to...

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 detriment of minors, as new forms of slavery - are now available online on the website of the Department for Family Policies...

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 the past 25 years; on the other hand, it flags worrying trends observed in the past five years, including declines in life...

Care Leavers Day is celebrated on 18 May to raise awareness among all citizens about the situation and needs of care leavers, young people leaving care in foster homes or residential communities who, upon turning eighteen, often find themselves alone and disoriented, without a home, a job, or adequate social support. In order to invite the young people of...

The National Day Against Paedophilia and Child Pornography, which falls on 5 May, invites us to keep our attention focused on an issue that unfortunately affects many children and adolescents. With the advent of digital technology, abuses against minors have taken on new forms and have spread globally, with very serious consequences for the health and...

The new 2025-2027 National Family Plan, approved by the National Observatory of the Family on 9 December 2024, is online on the website of the Department for Family Policies of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. The Unified Conference sanctioned the agreement at its meeting on 20 March 2025. The main objective of the document is to adopt a...

Reading plays a fundamental role in the growth of children because it stimulates the imagination and helps to develop skills and abilities, as the numerous initiatives promoted on the occasion of World Book and Copyright Day, which is celebrated today, 23 April, remind us. Intelleg(g)o is the theme chosen for the 2025 edition of...

Cyberbullying, hate speech and other forms of violence are increasingly common among children and adolescents. To promote full, competent and safe access to the web, Save the Children has launched a new campaign on digital education, as well as a Guide with useful advice and tools for parents and other key adults enabling them to ...

The Italian Ministry of Education and Merit and Caritas Italy have signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding to promote among young people the value of social solidarity and the creation of bonds of solidarity to build inclusive communities based on a culture of encounter. By signing the agreement, the Ministry undertakes to inform...

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 in “Trends in Maternal Mortality Estimates 2000 to 2023”, a report issued on 7 April on World Health Day. The...