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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) was adopted by a unanimous General Assembly on the 20th of November 1989. Consequently 2009 is the 20th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The CRC is the basis for Swedish action in different policy areas – including international development cooperation – when efforts are made in order to improve the situation for children. The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) has internal guidelines: The Rights of the Child in Swedish Development Cooperation, indicating how Sida in a concrete way can take into consideration and implement the ideas of the CRC in Swedish development actions. Children’s rights constitute one issue among others that should be mainstreamed in Sida’s work. The Government communication on The Rights of the Child as a Perspective in Development Cooperation, 2001/02:186, is still appropriate as a basis when making priorities. With reference to the 20th anniversary of the CRC, Sida decided to organise a conference: Implementing children’s’ rights – the best way to fight poverty! on 30 November 2009. The objective was to highlight the importance of continued actions concerning the implementation of the CRC and the use of the child rights perspective in international development cooperation. Read the conference summary report here. Further information