Defence for Children Italia is a grass-roots, independent and non-governmental organisation, part of the Defence for Children International Movement. Defence for Children International is dedicated to ensuring on-going, practical, systematic and concerted international action directed to-wards 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. DCI Italia is also the Italian member of the International Social Service Network and the Child Friendly Justice Network.