‘TOKELAU SPEAKS UP’ (Centre) Ulu o Tokelau, Aliki Faipule Salesio Lui during the UN Decolonisation Committee meeting in Ecuador last month. Tokelau speaks up about being shut out of UN bodies Posted at 06:17 on 10 June, 2013 UTC Tokelau is to ask the United Nations to take special consideration of territories to ensure they can link up with international agencies and access funding for critical projects. The Ulu o Tokelau, Aliki Faipule Salesio Lui, told a UN Decolonisation Committee meeting in Ecuador last month that the atolls, as a New Zealand colony, are not eligible for UN funds through its Small Island Developing States programmes. He says while the impacts of climate change, coastal erosion and ocean acidification are already plain in Tokelau, it has no opportunity to participate in the international discussion on these issues. The Ulu says it wants to be able to join UN bodies like the Alliance of Small Island States or the International Renewable Energy Agency and will plead this case at the UN’s Special Committee on the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, in New York. ALIKI FAIPULE SALESIO LUI: This is the message that we have been conveying. And also we our relationship with the development partnership landscape has changed. So the development partners have the financial resources, but, importantly, they have the resources, including the wealth of institutional knowledge. DON WISEMAN: What’s required here, I guess, is a rule change, and you want the UN to change the rules, effectively, that determine who can belong to what organisation. AFSL: Yes. I think it’s our intention and also with the support of New Zealand. New Zealand is doing whatever possible for Tokelau, and also, at the same time, the UN is just watching how the New Zealand administering powers behave in terms of whether they support or not. DW: Clearly, you want to get aid assistance from these various organisations, but if that’s not possible the other option is to come directly to Wellington and ask for more.

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Health Awareness Against STI's

WORKSHOP GROUP PHOTO: Members from SPC and Tokelau participants during workshop held at the Millennium Hotel in Apia.

A WORKSHOP aimed at preventing and promoting safe sex against transmitted infections (STI) among the people of Tokelau was held for participants from the island in Apia.
 
Funded through Tokelau Grants from Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) and organised by Tokelau Health Department, about 16 participated in the workshop.
 
The training message was aimed at finding effective methods to encourage the use of protection and preventative ways to avoid catching sexually transmitted infections.
 
The workshop will deal with issues through family life, education community programs to deliver information so people can make appropriate choices for their lives and not put themselves at risk.
 
"Hospital records indicate an increasing level of STI prevalence in Tokelau - especially among the youths. This has become a priority for Tokelau Health. This Behaviour Change communication (BCC) is an approach that we (Tokelau) can adopt to enhance health education and promotion and to create an environment that supports a healthy lifestyle changes", says  Director of Tokelau Health, Silivia Alapati.
 
 

Participants brainstorming communicating methods during a strategy activity in the workshop.

Tokelau health Department provides broad treatment to patient with sexual transmitted infections due to lack of resources available. Having the necessary equipment and training will enable the department to properly manage and provide precise treatment needed.
 
"The department will also host a workshop for Medical Officers and Nurses in Tokelau on how to carry out medical lab testing for STI and developing appropriate guidelines on (18-28th June, 2013), to increase the capacity of the health staffs in testing and confirming STI so that they are appropriately managed in Tokelau. The intention is to make the testing for STI available in Tokelau. The availability of the STI testing in Tokelau, will strengthen the Behaviour change communication strategies, and we are foreseeing positive outcomes", she add.
 
The first of three phase workshop training was held at the Millennium Hotel in Apia.
 
The workshop was facilitated by Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Nicol Cave, Jacinta Isaacs from the Public Health Division and Lono Leneuoti from the Tuvalu Family Health.

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Ulu o Tokelau, Aliki Faipule Salesio Lui during his travel to QUITO, ECUADOR.

In about 3 weeks from today I will also be presenting Tokelau’s Statement to the Special Committee in New York. On that, the first and most important point to make is that Tokelau is aware of its inalienable right to self-determination. As members of this Seminar are aware, Tokelau carried out a referendum in 2006 and also in 2007 to explore the option of self determination in Free Association with the Government of New Zealand. Tokelau has been enriched through the two Referenda and certainly as a consequence of the processes of self determination. Our people are now more aware of the issues of self government and self reliance. 
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