Defence for Children International-Canada (DCI-Canada) is the Canadian section of DCI, a world-wide movement in support of children’s rights. DCI was founded in 1979, the international year of the child.

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Gender activist, Betty Makoni, has been defending the rights of children in her native Zimbabwe since she was just a girl.  Her story is the reason why she developed and is fulfilling her vision of empowering girls internationally to recognize and defend their own rights.
Founder and Director of the Girl Child Network (GCN), she [...]

Defence for Children International- Canada Presents:

 
Christopher Alexander
“The Children of Afghanistan: Protection, Education and the Challenge of Peace”

 
Afghanistan has one of the youngest populations on earth, with 65% or more of school age or below.  While huge strides have been made in restoring the education sector, with seven million now back in school, quality and access [...]

The year of the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
1989 was an important year in the history of the world. It was the year when the nations of the world sat down together and agreed that a child is a person with individual rights. They [...]

Today the Board of Directors of Defence for Children International-Canada (DCI-Canada) passed the following resolution in support of Aboriginal children’s rights in regard to child protection and the First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada’s complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

The DCI International Secretariat has released the April, 2009 issue of the Juvenile Justice Newsletter.