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Women’s Leadership Centre

Established in Windhoek in 2004, the Women’s Leadership Centre (WLC) is a Namibian feminist organisation registered as a Trust. We build women’s rights leadership and citizenship among girls and young women who are among the most marginalised, excluded and discriminated against in our society, including indigenous San young women and girls, lesbian young women, and girls and women subjected to harmful cultural practices.

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Latest News

Scientists around the world have shown that drilling for oil and gas comes with a number of very serious dangers to economies, people, livestock, wildlife, rivers, ecosystems and our climate.

The Namibian Lesbian Festival 2022 brought together 35 young lesbians from six regions of Namibia for a week of sisterhood and solidarity, which included healing sessions, discussions on feminist movement building, and creating music, dance and poetr...
Eveliina Anteroinen of the Embassy of Finland launched the booklet: "Becoming the parents our children need! A guide for San parents and caregivers" in the presence of Hon. Royal J.K. /Ui/o/oo, Deputy Minister for Marginalised Communities in the Pres...
The WLC hosted an advocacy meeting in Katima Mulilo on 16 September 2022 on the prevention of harmful cultural practices in Zambezi Region with community leaders from 8 villages and representatives from the ministries of Gender, Safety and Security, ...

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The Women's Leadership Centre is grateful to the following donors, who have provided financial and other support for our work.

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