The third edition of the Report Lavoro minorile in Italia: rischi, infortuni e sicurezza sui luoghi di lavoro (Child Labour in Italy: Risks, Accidents and Safety in the Workplace) reveals an increase in the number of child...

The climate crisis has a huge impact on everyone's life, but those who suffer the most are certainly children, because they are more vulnerable and exposed to the risks involved. Save the...

The World Day Against Child Labour calls for reflection on a phenomenon that encompasses various forms of exploitation and abuse, often driven by extreme poverty, lack of access to education, and economic and political situations in...

Entitled La parola ai ragazzi e alle ragazze (Giving a Voice to Young People), the first edition of the Report released by Unicef Italy contains over 12,000 responses from adolescents involved in 15 surveys on key issues that...

The 6th and 7th Monitoring Reports on the Voluntary Guardianship System prepared by the Italian Ombudsperson for Children and Adolescents are online. The Reports cover, respectively, the period from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023...

In 2024, more than 295 million people in 53 countries and territories experienced acute levels of hunger (13.7 million more than in 2023). Malnutrition, particularly child malnutrition, has reached extremely high levels in the Gaza...

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...

The 2022 and 2023 Reports to Parliament on the coordination activity referred to in Article 17, paragraph 1, of Law no. 69 of 3 August 1998 - Provisions against the exploitation of prostitution, pornography, and sexual tourism to the...

The new Report Card 19 from the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre focuses on the well-being of children and adolescents. It presents a complex picture: on the one hand, it highlights significant improvements in children’s well-being over...

Care Leavers Day is celebrated on 18 May to raise awareness among all citizens about the situation and needs of care leavers, young people leaving care in foster homes or residential communities who, upon turning eighteen, often find...

The National Day Against Paedophilia and Child Pornography, which falls on 5 May, invites us to keep our attention focused on an issue that unfortunately affects many children and...

The new 2025-2027 National Family Plan, approved by the National Observatory of the Family on 9 December 2024, is online on the website of the Department for Family Policies of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. The Unified...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

On 19 and 20 February 2025, the first World Youth Forum of Associations and Clubs for Unesco was held in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

This event brought together young representatives from all over the world to discuss...

Save the Children has published a new guide entitled “Educare al digitale tra i 5 e gli 8 anni: tracce educative per docenti e genitori” (Digital Education for Children Between 5 and 8: Guidelines for Teachers and...

In collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Merit, Indire has launched the Library of Innovation, an online platform for documenting and sharing innovative ideas aimed at renewing the traditional school model....

“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...

11 February is Safer Internet Day (SID), the World Day for Internet Safety established by the European Commission to make young people think not only about the conscious use of the web but also about the active and responsible role of...

The International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), which falls on 6 February, aims to spread greater awareness about this human-rights abusive practice affecting millions of girls, young women and women around...