Alerts
Get the latest news and activity updates from WALPE. Our alerts highlight recent achievements, events, and key developments in our mission to support young women’s political leadership. Stay connected with our work through these regular updates, tailored for funders, partners, and the media.
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Joint Press Statement On State Terror after the January 2019 Stay-away: Women Demand Justice
Justice for Women Zimbabwe (JWZ), Female Prisoners Support Trust (FEMPRIST) and Women’s Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE) note with concern and anguish the gross human rights violations by the Zimbabwe Government and state security agents, particularly the rights of women. During and after the 14-16 January 2019 national shutdown Zimbabwean security forces were…
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WALPE Condemns the Rape and Torture of Women During the 14-16 January 2019 Stay-away
Women’s Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE), condemns in the strongest terms the rape and torture of women across the country on 14- 16 January 2018 during the national shut down. iTV news, an international credible news agency released a heart rending video of women narrating horror stories of how they were tortured, raped…
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WALPE 2019 Statement
Women’s Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE) welcomes all Zimbabweans and women leaders in particular to the year 2019. We note with concern the deepening economic crisis facing the country and how it adversely impacts women participation in leadership positions. When the family is faced with hunger and difficulties, women often have to be…
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WALPE embarks on women leadership action research.
Women’s Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE), on 19 December 2018, conducted a women leadership action research in the rural province of Mashonaland Central’s areas of Mazowe, Chiweshe, Chaona and Muzarabani. This is part of the organisation’s countrywide needs assessment and reflection consultative researches with women who want to run for political office during…
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The First Women’s Political School In Zimbabwe is Officially Launched
Women’s Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE) was officially launched in Masvingo on Friday 07 December 2018. WALPE is a women’s political empowerment and leadership academy set up to advance knowledge and deepen the capacity of women who want to successfully run for public elected positions. It seeks to provide women with technical and practical…
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WALPE Statement on 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence.
Women Academy for Leadership and Political Excellence (WALPE) joins millions of Zimbabwean women and girls and the rest of the world in commemorating 16 days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence (GBV). This year’s commemorations are being held under the theme: ‘Zero tolerance to sexual harassment in the work place.’ WALPE believes that the work place is…
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