On 20 and 21 April, the final conference of the third preparatory phase of the European Guarantee System for Vulnerable Children (Child Guarantee), a European Commission initiative aimed at promoting equal opportunities and ensuring access to essential services for children at risk of poverty or social exclusion, was held in Sofia...

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, vaccinations reveals that confidence in vaccines dropped during the pandemic in 52 out of 55 countries surveyed. The...

Reading is a very important activity that should be nurtured and supported from an early age, because it stimulates the curiosity and imagination of young children and helps them develop skills and abilities. Many initiatives organised by institutions and other bodies to mark World Book and Author's Rights Day...

Creativity plays a central role in the development process of children: it helps them acquire many skills, boosts their self-esteem and contributes to strengthening their critical thinking, enabling them to see perspectives other than the usual ones. It not only relates to artistic skills, but also to the ability to find new solutions to problems and...

Save the Children's new survey It's not a game is dedicated to child labour in Italy. The research shines the spotlight on a global phenomenon that also affects our country, in a widespread way but still largely undetected and unseen, with the aim of defining its characteristics, understanding its features, its evolution over time and its connections with...

In our country, the birth rate has continued to fall: in 2022, the number of births fell below the 400,000 mark for the first time since the unification of Italy, to 393,000. This is what emerges from the new Istat report Demographic Indicators: Year 2022, which also looks at other aspects, including life expectancy at birth,...

Strengthening protection and inclusion interventions for more than 20,000 girls, boys, adolescents, young people and women who are refugees and migrants in Italy. This is the objective of "Protect", the project launched on 15 February 2023 by UNICEF and the Directorate General for Migration and Home...

Informing and raising awareness about online bullying, underlining the support of institutions to victims and the commitment of public administrations to combat the phenomenon to ensure greater online safety of children and young people: this is the objective of the fourth campaign to raise awareness and combat cyberbullying launched by the Department for...

Safer Internet Day (SID), the World Network Safety Day established by the European Commission, turns 20 on 7 February. It is a very important opportunity to lead girls and boys to reflect not only on the conscious use of the web but also "on the active and responsible role of everyone in the creation of the internet as a positive and safe place". Many...

Female genital mutilation (FGM) has very serious consequences on the physical and mental health of girls and young women who undergo it. The World Day of Zero Tolerance against Female Genital Mutilation, which occurs on 6 February, was established by the United Nations precisely to spread ever-increasing awareness of this practice that...

The future I would like is the new online public consultation aimed at adolescents between 14 and 18 years old launched by the Italian Ombudsman for Children (AGIA) Carla Garlatti on 16 January to gather the views of young people on expectations and proposals for action with respect to the future awaiting them. The initiative,...

27 January is a Day of Remembrance. It is a very important date, which sees all the countries of the world committed to promoting initiatives to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and encourage reflection and remembrance. The anniversary was established in Italy with the law 211/2000, to ensure the commemoration of the extermination...