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08/03/2012 16:48
Violence against women and girls in Tonga: The reality of everyday life
(by Ma’a Fafine moe Famili)
The Members of Parliament Social Justice Committee have been presented with some disturbing facts about the everyday reality for women and girls in Tonga as based on a Tonga’s first...
08/03/2012 16:43
A firsthand account of reporting of domestic violence from a client of WCCC
“I have made up my mind today that I will never get together with my husband. I now want to go see a lawyer. I want a Restraining Order to stop him from coming to where I stay.
I have been physically abused since we...
08/03/2012 16:38
A firsthand account of reporting of domestic violence from a client of WCCC
“He went last Friday 20/1/2012 to work, and up to today he hasn’t returned home. We had one child who was adopted and he is dead now. I was so worried about my husband, where he is because I know that he went to work. I...
08/03/2012 16:23
WCCC Staffs held awareness program to four Government Primary Schools in Tonga at the Eastern District which are Mu’a, Lapaha, Afa and Niutoua. They talk about the services that the centre provides, the core areas that the centre is working towards to achieve in a simple way for the students to...
08/03/2012 16:06
Students of Ocean of Light International School celebrate their Feast Day with doing a service project. “Students are collecting gifts and they have to choose an organization to present them their gifts as their donation, and they chose Women & Children Crisis Centre to be their service...
08/03/2012 15:52
WCCC’s Community Education Trainer, Lesila To’ia attended this consultation.
Representatives from the Asia Pacific Region participated with submission to the UN Special Procedure Mandate Holders, also presentations from different organizations that work in the Human Rights area.
WCCC’s...
08/03/2012 15:47
The Pacific region turned out in impressive numbers this morning to the 9th Meeting of the Commonwealth Gender Plan of Action Monitoring Group (CGPMG), which opened this morning at the UN Millennium Plaza Hotel, New York. Of the ten countries in the Pacific who are members of the CGPMG,...
27/02/2012 15:15
21 February 2012
MEDIA RELEASE
TONGA: Drafting Instructions for a comprehensive violence against women (VAW) and children legislation approved for review by Tonga’s cabinet IN 2011 was presented this morning to a room full of church leaders during a consultation hosted by...
27/02/2012 14:28
17 February
MEDIA RELEASE
The consultation looking into Tonga’s second Universal Periodic Review
(UPR) report has ended on a high note. Both Government and Non
Government Organizations have committed to ongoing dialogue and making
the process of developing both the State and CSO...
07/10/2011 11:43
As part of their work, our WCCC counsellors conduct home visits to women and children referred by the community health clinics. These home visits are critical because many of these women have no means of getting to the main centre in Fanga either because of fear, no funds to access public...
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