The Frontier of Rights is Unicef's new report on under-18 migrants and refugees, an overview of unaccompanied foreign minors in Italy and the main landing and transit sites where the organization is active, from the southern to...

In the 2021/2022 school year, 13,518 nurseries and supplementary services for early childhood are active and more than 350,000 places are authorized (48.8 per cent of which are under public ownership).

There has...

Hunger threatens over 122 million more people worldwide than in 2019, due to both the pandemic and a succession of climate disruptions and conflicts, including the war in Ukraine. According to the recent report The State of Food...

The research report presents the results of the ex-post monitoring of the use by the Regions and Autonomous Provinces of the financial resources of the National Fund for Family Policies, promoted by the Department for Family Policies,...

This fourth edition reports, for the year 2020, the update of the recognition of the good practices that the Municipalities have implemented within the offer of services and interventions in the field of family policies, and financed by...

In 2022, there were 69,601 workers aged between 15 and 17 in our country, up from 51,845 in 2021.

This was revealed in the report Child labour in Italy: risks, accidents and safety in the workplace, published on 12 June...

In many countries stricken by war, funding for the protection of children in armed conflicts does not keep up with the growing number of families and children at risk.

The Save the Children report Unprotected: An Analysis of...

Based on the latest ISTAT data, in 2022 the number of births fell below the 400,000 mark for the first time since the unification of Italy, to 393,000.

While there are many contributing factors behind the delay...

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...

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...

Children from the poorest families benefit less from national public funding for education.

According to the recent UNICEF report Transforming Education with Equitable Financing, on average the poorest 20% of...

Two new reports on child mortality worldwide, prepared by the United Nations Inter-Agency Group on Child Mortality Assessment: Levels &Trends in Child Mortality, are online on the Unicef website. Report 2022...

The Report to Parliament on the coordinated activity referred to in article 17, paragraph 1, of Italian Law no. 269 of 3 August 1998 (Regulations against the exploitation of prostitution, pornography and sex tourism to the...

As of 31 December 2020, 13,542 early childhood services were in operation in the country, almost 300 fewer than the previous year (-2.1%).

The total number of places is 350,670, 49% of which are in public facilities, with a...

As of 31 December 2021, the number of unaccompanied foreign children and adolescents increased by 73%, while the number of voluntary guardians registered in the Juvenile Court lists remained substantially stable (-0.35...

It's called How are you? the thirteenth edition of the Atlas of Childhood at Risk by Save the Children, a snapshot of the living conditions of children and young people in our country, from which the strong impact of socio-...

Racism and discrimination against children on the basis of their ethnic, linguistic and religious affiliation are widespread throughout the world. According to the recent UNICEF report Rights denied: The impact of discrimination on...

Children in Latin America and the Caribbean are at risk of violence at home, at school and on the streets from the age of one year.

According to the recent UNICEF report, A Statistical Profile of Violence Against Children in...

Poverty and the climate crisis affect millions of children worldwide.

This is the highly topical theme at the centre of Save the Children's new report Generation Hope: 2.4 billion reasons to end the global climate crisis and...

Climate change has a huge impact on everyone's life, but it is important to remember that it is mainly the youngest who pay the highest price. This is the theme of the new UNICEF report The coldest year of the rest of their lives....

9.7% of students with a high school diploma in 2022 will find themselves in a situation of "implicit" dropping out, i.e. without the minimum skills necessary to enter the world of work or university, while 12.7% of under-18s do not even...

Girls all over the world lag behind boys in mathematical skills, and sexism and gender stereotypes are among the main contributing factors. This is revealed in the recent Unicef report Solving the Equation: Helping Girls and Boys...

For the first time, the number of students with non-Italian citizenship in Italian schools decreased from 877,000 in the 2019/2020 school year to 865,388 in the 2020/2021 school year (-1.3%). This is revealed in the Ministry of...

Much of the progress made in Lebanon towards achieving the fundamental rights of children – including the right to health, education, protection, play and recreation – has been eroded by the economic crisis and the impact of the COVID-...

97% of Afghan families are desperately trying to get enough food to feed their children. Nearly 80% of children reported having gone to bed hungry in the last thirty days, a probability that now involves twice as many girls as their...

Ending the detention of asylum seekers, refugees and migrant children across Europe. UNCHR, UNICEF and IOM repeated this in a joint study reviewing the relevant policies of European countries.

An advocacy document from which the...

During the Covid-19 pandemic, girls and boys all over India experienced anxiety disorders and problems sleeping due to high stress. This is revealed by the results of research conducted by Save the Children, which also show an increase...

Nearly three quarters of young people between the ages of 15 and 24 in 92 countries around the world fail to acquire the necessary skills to work. These are the findings of the report Recovering learning: Are children and youth on...

The 12th Update Report on the monitoring of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Italy, produced by the hundred associations of the Group with the coordination of Arianna Saulini, of Save the Children, is online on the...

The number of hungry people in the world is growing, rising to 828 million in 2021. The recent report The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022  – by five United Nations agencies (FAO,...