Defence for Children International (DCI) is an international children's rights movement that has been active at the local, national and international levels for some 20 years now.

Defence for Children International

DCI - a non-governmental and non-profit organization - was born in July 1979. The movement was founded 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. DCI was established in direct response to the lack of international structures dedicated to a human rights-based approach to the multi-faceted problems faced by the world's children.

http://www.dci-is.org/