News
18/08/2010 12:45
Tonga National Youth Congress (TNYC) in collaboration with Tupou High School and the University of the South Pacific Tonga campus conducted an excellent production Love for Life: Silence and HIV.
Through the story of Mele- a mother of two with an abusive and unfaithful husband for...
18/08/2010 12:42
WCCC staff attended a workshop on HIV /AIDS and Human Rights which looked into the rights of the HIV positive victims and how we can create a safe and supportive environment.
Participants included representatives from NGOs, civil society and Government Ministries. HIV Community trainer...
18/08/2010 12:26
Reports of sexual assault in Tonga have been on the increase. In the first case recorded of its type, a women has been trafficked here into the Kingdom to take part as a prostitute. Cases have also been processed through the courts involving incest with minors and rape. This increase in...
09/08/2010 09:49
Westpac Bank of Tonga presented over a thousand pa'anga worth of
donations to the Women and Children Crisis Centre. Staff of Westpac
worked together to collect food, clothes, blankets and a cheque of
$1200.
Safe House Manager, Sr. Anunisia Fifita accepted the donations with a
big smile, "The...
09/08/2010 09:34
The Women and Children Crisis Centre (WCCC) is putting the pressure on to revise a decision recently passed in Tongan parliament to send troops to Afganistan.
55 Tongan soldiers are committed to begin service in Afghanistan in November, with a total of 275 soldiers committed over a...
16/07/2010 08:05
How much are we prepared as a nation for the upcoming General Elections? Democracy means that as citizens we should be given the right to have a say in how our country is run. It's not just about turning up on the day of elections to vote – it’s about knowing about the new parliamentary...
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...
