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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...
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...
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...
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...
“Our Voice Counts” is the title of the new Unicef report that collects and analyses data from surveys conducted in 2024 through U-Report on The Move, the listening and participation platform designed to give a...
Advocacy per i diritti dell’infanzia e dell’adolescenza (Advocacy for the Rights of Children and Adolescents) is the title of the new Officine Unicef "Special Edition" cycle. It is a programme of seven online training events...
Today, children and young people find themselves growing up in a country marked by significant local inequalities, which now affect all regions. The new Crc Group report “I diritti dell’infanzia e dell’adolescenza in Italia.I dati...
Despite the significant progress made worldwide in ensuring legal identity, today 150 million children under the age of 5 (approximately 2 out of 10) remain invisible because they are not registered at birth. The new Unicef Report “The...
Despite the achievements on the rights of children and adolescents, not all minors have the same opportunities: inequalities are growing, with inevitable repercussions on society as a whole, and there is still a long way to go to...
The National Office against Racial Discrimination (Unar), the Unicef Office for Europe and Central Asia in Italy and the Italian Committee for Unicef have signed a three-year memorandum of understanding to promote an inclusive culture...
Michela Vittoria Brambilla is the new president of the Parliamentary Commission for Childhood and Adolescence, which took office on 25 July.
The Commission – set up by Law 451/1997 and composed of twenty...
Two young people from the Youth Council of the Italian Ombudsperson for children (AGIA) also participated in the Enya 2023 Forum, which took place in Malta on 4 and 5 July.
The Forum – an event of the Enya...
On 4 July, the inaugural meeting of the National Observatory on Childhood and Adolescence, reconstituted by decree of the Minister for the Family, Birth Rate and Equal Opportunities, Eugenia Maria Roccella, of 22 May 2023, was held in...
As always, the youngest are the stars of #Giffoni53, an international film festival for children, the result of an idea by Claudio Gubitosi, which will take place in Giffoni Valle Piana, Salerno province, from 20 to 29 July....
On 26 and 27 June, the General Assembly organised by the European Commission to launch the EU Children's Participation Platform, a platform bringing together children and adolescents from all over Europe, took place in...
More than 6,500 young people between the ages of 12 and 18 took part in the public consultation The Future I'd Like, carried out by the Italian Ombudsperson for children (AGIA) Carla Garlatti together with Skuola.net.
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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...
On 16, 17 and 18 December last year, the adolescents and young people of the Youth Advisory Board (Yab) met in Milan for the third time to discuss the implementation of the Child Guarantee, an initiative by the European...
This is a guide to help officials of local and national institutions, school headteachers, teachers and other professionals to establish or strengthen Children's and Youth Councils, bodies composed of under-18s appointed to become their...
The Agenda for Children and Adolescents. 10 steps to make a practical commitment to the new generations is online on the website of the CRC Group (Working Group for the Convention on the Rights of Children and...
The severe crisis we are experiencing, exacerbated by the conflict in Ukraine and the Covid-19 pandemic, affects everyone, but we must not forget that children and adolescents pay the highest price. This is precisely why it is crucial...
A guide to accompany coaches and sports managers in their work to support the growth of children involved in sports activities.
The publication, entitled The Protection of the Rights of Children in Sport, was presented...
The position statement on climate justice adopted at the Network's General Assembly on 21 September is now online on the website of the European Network of Advocates for Children and Adolescents (ENOC). The position statement is a short...
The National Guarantor for the Rights of Persons Detained or Deprived of Liberty, Mauro Palma, and the president of Unicef Italy, Carmela Pace, signed a three-year memorandum of understanding to promote children's rights,...
On 12 July, the Minister for Equal Opportunities and the Family, Elena Bonetti, approved the Guidelines for the Participation of Girls and Boys by decree. The document, adopted by the National Observatory for Childhood...
The parent-child relationship, amid the rights and needs for protection: meetings in a protected environment is the new initiative promoted by the Ombudsperson for Children (Agia) to carry out a review of the most...
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...
An estimated 10 million children were displaced by weather-related shocks in 2020 alone. Approximately one billion (almost half of the world's 2.2 billion children), in contrast, live in 33 countries considered to be at high risk due to...
The definition of guidelines to be applied uniformly throughout Italy for the removal of children with the assistance of the police following a court order or urgent referral. This is the objective of the working table promoted in...
The young people who took part in the Forum entitled Let's Talk Young, Let's Talk About Climate Justice, held in Bilbao, Spain, from 28 to 30 June, tackled a very topical issue, climate justice.
The Forum - the...