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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...
07/10/2011 11:23
Case Type
Number of Cases
Domestic Violence
111
Sexual Harassment
5
Child Abuse-11
Neglect-...
07/10/2011 10:25
There has been an increase in reports of children not attending school which has been picked up by our WCCC counselors during their home visits. Most of these cases have been referred to the WCCC by the community health centers. Most of these children are aged between 5 years of age...
07/10/2011 10:15
Excerpts for this article taken from the media release National consultation on Changing Laws, Protecting Women accessed from https://www.tongaeducation.gov.to
In August, Lepolo Mahe Taunisila, one the Trustees of the WCCC, played a critical role in the facilitating of the National consultation...
07/10/2011 10:08
The Ministry of Education, Women’s Affairs and Culture (MEWAC) has officially approved WCCC awareness programs to be carried out to all Government schools in the country. This is a major milestone and a step forward for the work of the WCCC who only just established themselves in November...
07/10/2011 10:02
A firsthand account of reporting domestic violence from a client at WCCC.
I have been married for thirteen years. I was fifteen and he was seventeen. He wasn’t my first man but he knew it before we got married. His family didn’t want him to marry me but he insisted so they let...
