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15/07/2010 17:01
WCCC attended a workshop last week held by the Tonga National Womens Congress to strategise how more women can be elected in the upcoming federal elections, scheduled for November 25.
Nine female candidates are expected to stand for the upcoming elections, and all of them are passionate about...
15/07/2010 16:48
WCCC Community Education Trainer, ‘Asela Sauaki was a guest speaker at the Ha’apai Camp Glow - the week long sleep away camp for empowering young girls between the ages of 13 – 19.
Sauaki talked to the young girls about sexual harassment. “It was quite a new topic for them even though...
15/07/2010 16:29
25 young male participants completed training to advocate for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The WCCC in collaboration with the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre (FWCC) held the 1st Stage of the Male Advocacy for Women’s Human Rights Training from June 08th – June 11th.
The...
11/06/2010 11:43
Young men in Tonga attending the Male Advocacy on Eliminating Violence Against Women Stage I Training since Tuesday have been undergoing intensive training on gender equality and sensitivity, women’s human rights, domestic violence, rape and sexual assault, sexual harassment and child sexual...
09/06/2010 15:47
The Women and Children Crisis Centre (WCCC) is calling for a strong response to a woman facing charges in Tonga this week charged with sex trafficking, running a brothel and trading in prostitution. The trafficking concerned two Chinese women – aged 29 and 33 years – who were...
09/06/2010 15:09
For many years hundreds of domestic violence, rape and sexual assaults have been dealt with as a crime that can be forgiven and forgotten. Perhaps it is because 99% of the time it is women and children who fall victim to these atrocious crimes, and so it wasn’t taken too seriously....
09/06/2010 15:08
First hand case study of child abuse from a client of the WCCC
It was a Friday night and I already had permission from my dad to go to our church dance with my sister and cousin. We didn’t have a ride so we went somewhere else instead. My younger sister and cousin hung out with our friends...
09/06/2010 15:05
The Women and Children Crisis Centre supports the sentencing of the long-serving senior Police Officer, Viliami Toki, for assaulting and injuring a man in custody in 2008.
“It is a clear sign that those under custody of the state have rights that must be respected” said WCCC...
09/06/2010 15:03
If a man by the name of Sione beats on another male outside a bar or at his workplace, bashes the male victim on the head, urinates on him and then rapes him – what do you think will happen to Sione?
If Sione goes and robs a bank in Nuku’alofa and smashes a few of the employees while...
09/06/2010 14:56
“Media Freedom@work”
Building safety, excellence and leadership networks for Pacific women in media
School of Journalism and Communications, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia,
April 28-30th, 2010
OUTCOMES STATEMENT—DRAFT
Women from Pacific mainstream, civil society,...
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