Ten years after it adopted a United Nations convention on children's rights, Japan still has a long way to go in terms of protecting these rights, according to participants at a Tokyo symposium this week.
The symposium, which took place Monday at United Nations University in Shibuya Ward, was held to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Japan's ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
It was sponsored by UNICEF and the Foreign Ministry, and was attended by scholars, politicians, lawyers, journalists and representatives of international and nongovernmental organizations.