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 mark the occasion, the S.O.S. Il Telefono Azzurro Foundation will host Bambini Invisibili (Invisible Children), a conference where institutional representatives and international experts will discuss the main causes of the phenomenon, potential solutions, and other key issues such as the role of civil society and the importance of transnational cooperation in safeguarding missing children and adolescents. For information about the conference, please visit Telefono Azzurro website.

To further explore the theme of the anniversary, we would like to point out the news, documents and other materials published in the section of the website of the Ministry of the Interior dedicated to the Extraordinary Government Commissioner for Missing Persons.

We also recommend consulting the legislative framework on international child protection systems for foreign minors prepared by the National Centre for Documentation and Analysis for Children and Adolescents.

Additional materials and news can be found on this website under Missing children, accessible from the “Topics” navigation menu.