子どもの貧困対策の推進に関する法律 Act on the Promotion of Policy on Child Poverty
Government of Japan
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Child Rights Legislation
Japan
26 June 2013
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The purpose of this Act is to comprehensively promote measures to combat child poverty by establishing guiding principles, clarifying the responsibilities of the State, etc. and establishing the particulars upon which measures against child poverty are based, so as to eliminate child poverty in the spirit of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, with a view to protecting the healthy physical and mental development of, and equal educational opportunities for all children, and allowing every child to have hopes and dreams without their present and future being dependent on the environment in which they were born and raised.Content
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