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...

9 April marks the first National Day for Listening to Children, established by Law no. 104 of 4 July 2024 to raise awareness of the importance of giving children and adolescents an active and participatory role in the choices that directly affect them. The institutional event to celebrate the Day will include, in addition to speeches by institutional...

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. However, progress has slowed down and too many children still lose their lives to preventable causes. These are the findings of...

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 spotlight on the rights of young people who leave the alternative care system on reaching adulthood. The central issue was the risk of...

On World Water Day, Unicef highlighted that every day, more than 1,000 children under the age of five lose their lives due to diseases linked to unsafe water and inadequate sanitation, contributing to a total of 1.4 million deaths annually. Currently, four billion people - almost two thirds of the world's population - face severe water shortages for at...

Save the Children has launched the first edition of the Save the Children Research Award, an initiative of the new Research Centre of the Italian branch of this organisation. The aim is to expand and disseminate knowledge on the condition of children and adolescents in Italy and around the world. The prize will be awarded by a jury made...

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 analyses the progress made from 1995, the year of the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action, to the present day. Despite...

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, gender-based violence and discrimination. The analysis focuses on eight countries heavily affected by protracted crises:...

The Department for Family Policies has announced the beginning of the work to define the National Plan for Preventing and Combating Bullying and Cyberbullying. This plan aims to strengthen protection measures for minors involved in bullying and cyberbullying, both as victims and perpetrators. On 25 February 2025, the first meeting of the...