It's time to accelerate action as we celebrate International Women's Day 2025

This year's theme is "accelerate action" which emphasizes the urgency of advocating for gender equality.

International Women's Day (IWD) is celebrated annually and globally on 8th of March as a way of honoring, appreciating and recommending women's achievements.

This calls for haste in utilizing imperative actions and measures to address barriers and biases affecting women in various spheres of the world.

It calls for the implementation of effective strategies aimed at amplifying women's voices, schemes and their efforts towards improvement. 

There are many factors affecting women and girls today. One of the prevalent maladies is gender-based inequalities.

It is crucial for divergent approaches towards handling this matter. Gender inequalities erupt when people are treated differently based on their gender. It is rooted in sexism, and gender discrimination among other causes.

It presents itself as a disaster as it can affect women's health; both (mental and psychological health), education, business opportunities, just to mention a few.

As this year's theme calls for accelerated action, it should be noted that prompt approaches are crucial to curtail the issue of gender-based violence not only in Kenya but globally.

Health campaigns and voluntary support groups are critical in addressing and giving related support required to mitigate diseases such as HIV and AIDS, teen pregnancies , and sexually transmitted infections among others.

Women and girls must explore and influence a culture of education. This suggests that proper education should be offered to women and girls conveniently. 

Women must globally or nationally unite and collaboratively work together toward ending all forms of domestic violence by ensuring that women's rights are observed.

Various organizations, whether government or non-profit (public or private) should step forward and utilize actions to their campaign for advocacy, educating, supporting, and understanding women and girls.

The government and all arms should not be left behind. It should ensure that all women are treated fairly- failure to which the person responsible for any form of violation of women's and girls' rights is held accountable as the law suggests.