Organisations Working for Child Rights
DEFENCE FOR CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL (DCI)
Defence for Children international (DCI) is an independent
non-governmental organisation set up during the International
Year of the Child (1979) to ensure on-going, practical, systematic
and concerted international action specially directed towards
promoting and protecting the rights of the child.
Defence for Children international (DCI) is an independent non-governmental
organisation set up during the International Year of the Child
(1979) to ensure on-going, practical, systematic and concerted
international action specially directed towards promoting and
protecting the rights of the child. The organisation's aims are:
» To foster awareness about, and solidarity around,
children's rights situations, issues and initiatives throughout
the world;
» To seek, promote and implement the most effective
means of securing the protection of the rights in concrete situations,
from both a preventive and curative standpoint.
To achieve these aims, DCI's methods include
» publishing information on all aspects of children's
rights, through regular and ad hoc publications;
» taking up specific cases of violations of children's
rights referred to it as an independent agency;
» undertaking action-oriented investigations, alone
or jointly, on serious global problems which are found to be
inadequately documented internationally, e. g. the sexual exploitation
of children, children in prison;
» taking direct action in response to situations
involving the violation of rights of specific group of children;
» monitoring and evaluating the practical implementation
of accepted children's rights;
» working for improved international standards
in the children's rights sphere;
» stimulating co-operation and action, nationally,
regionally and internationally, to improve responses to children's
rights problems.
DCI has consultative status with the United Nations Economic
and social Council, with UNICEF, with UNESCO and with the Council
of Europe.
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