Peter Dalglish , is the Canadian founder of the Street Kids International charity and a convicted sex offender. Until 2015, he was the Country Representative for UN-Habitat in Afghanistan. He is currently in prison in Nepal for nine years, being convicted of sexually assaulting two young boys. He denies this charge.
Dalglish organized an airlift of food and medical supplies from Canada to Ethiopia in December 1984. The experience convinced him to leave his law career and return to Africa to work with poor children. Dalglish joined the World University Service of Canada to work in Darfur, where he organized humanitarian relief for women and children displaced by severe drought and famine. In 1986, Dalglish was reassigned to run the World Food ProgrammeRoad Transportation Operation in Khartoum. Dalglish convinced a Belgian technical training school to provide auto mechanic training to street children, funded by Bob Geldof of Band Aid. In 1986, Dalglish set up a bicycle courier service run entirely by street children in Khartoum. With several borrowed bikes, he established Street Kids International. The initial profits enabled the organization to purchase more bikes. Dalglish served for some time as executive secretary to Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa, which helps out-of-work Canadian youth. In 1994, Dalglish was appointed as the first director of Youth Service Canada, the Government of Canada's civilian volunteer youth corps. In 2002 Dalglish was selected as the chief technical adviser for the UN's child labour program in Nepal. In this role, he focused on three initiatives: return children from orphanages to their families; treat children affected by HIV/AIDS, and apprenticeship training. In the late 1980s, Dalglish through Street Kids International arranged to rehabilitate and equip children's schools in southern Sudan as part of Operation Lifeline and hired Emma McCune to run the project. Between 2006 and 2010, Dalglish served as the executive director of the South Asia Children's Fund, which promotes education for disadvantaged children in the region. Dalglish served as Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Party for UN-Habitat in Kabul, Afghanistan October 2010–December 2014. In December 2014, he became Chief of Party until the end of his mission in July 2015. Following his Afghanistan mission, Dalglish joined the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response.
On April 8, 2018, Dalglish was arrested by Nepal Police from Kavre District on allegations of child rape. After weeks of investigation, Nepal's Central Investigation Bureau confirmed that Dalglish had been charged with raping two boys aged 12 and 14. Dalglish has denied the charges. On June 10, 2019, he was found guilty. On July 8, 2019 he was sentenced to prison, though news reports vary on the length of his term.
