L'approccio della cooperazione allo sviluppo non governativa italiana ai diritti dell'infanzia e dell'adolescenza. Valutazioni e prospettive

Children are human beings - just for the young and the resulting vulnerability – that need special protection. And, in the phase of childhood there is the foundations were laid for the realization of the adult life: ensure a happy and free from worries or problems about making sure to child the chance to become a happy adult, and made responsible. Therefore, any economic or social situation that might impair the proper growth and development of the child shall be a violation of his rights. Development cooperation aims primarily to contribute to raising the level of protection of the rights of children worldwide. Although on the rights of children we have, now, internationally, a comprehensive legislation and universally shared, millions of girls and children and adolescents in the world continue to suffer abuses of all kinds, just read the daily news, the reports of NGOs, the UN Commission on Human Rights or the Committee on the Rights of the Child United Nations. The development cooperation is directed towards solving these problems by addressing the most serious problems affecting children in situation of vulnerability and risk in many parts of the world. In this work we examined the Italian development cooperation and its approach to children's rights, at first, we analyzed the governmental cooperation implemented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, after which the non-governmental cooperation and decentralized into being by the NGOs and institutions local, then a research was made of field on some of the major Italian NGOs that deal with childhood and adolescence and we analyzed a cooperation project carried out by an Italian NGO in Morocco, Algeria, France, Spain and Italy on the protection of migrant children. In the work We try to answer a fundamental question: in times of crisis, financial, economic and, sometimes, also of values, can the non-governmental development cooperation, and particularly the decentralized one, save the Italian cooperation and bring it back the momentum they need to regain confidence and effectiveness of the Italians, and give Italy an important place in the international arena that deals with development?