Defence for Children International
 Switzerland  |  Research/Dev

Defence for Children International is dedicated to ensuring on-going, practical, systematic and concerted international action directed towards promoting and protecting the rights of the child, as articulated in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), its optional protocols, and all the other human rights instruments.

Defence for Children International (DCI) is an independent non-governmental organisation that has been promoting and protecting children's rights on a global, regional, national and local level for over 25 years. The movement was founded in July 1979 by Nigel Cantwell and Canon Moerman, the chair of the International Year of the Child, at a time when children's rights were not the main focus of many organizations. The International Year of the Child instigated the dissemination of an unprecedented amount of information about children's rights violations such as torture, prostitution, economic exploitation, arbitrary detention, and trafficking and sale. At the time, few international structures were dedicated to a human rights-based approach to the many problems faced by the world's children. DCI was established in direct response to this void.

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