Good governance workshop targets youth [1]
Saturday, June 30, 2001 - 10:00. Updated on Friday, January 29, 2016 - 18:18.
From Matangi Tonga Magazine, Vol. 16, no. 1, June 2001.
A five-day workshop on Human Rights and Good Governance for the Youth of Tonga will be held at the Tonga National Council of Churches Centre, Nuku‘alofa, June 18-22.
The workshop, hosted by the Tonga Human Rights and Democracy Movement aims at enlightening youths, mainly students from secondary schools, on the topics of human rights, good governance, the law of Tonga, women’s rights, the roles of the judiciary, the media, and the Legislative Assembly.
Lopeti Senituli, the Director of the Tonga Human Rights and Democracy Movement, said that the workshop will be the first of its kind for Tonga and, “in light of national and regional meetings hosted recently by the government relating to good and stable governance we hope the Workshop will be perceived as a small contribution toward the education of the general public, especially the youth, about their country, their government and their rights.”
Resource people include two from overseas, Joan Stapes, the Executive Director of the Diplomacy Training Program, University of New South Wales, and Patricia Sachs-Cornish, Programme Officer, Governance Programme of UNDP.
The Tonga Human Rights and Democracy Movement said that the workshop is supported financially by the Australian Government with technical expertise from the Governance Programme of the United Nations Development Programme, Suva, Fiji, and the Diplomacy Training Program of the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.