Nairobi, March 6 -- The campaign theme of this year's International Women's Day is "Inspire Inclusion", justified on the basis that this helps to forge a better world.

"Inclusion" has become a buzzword in recent years because of the concern that certain categories of people are often discriminated against unless deliberate preventive measures are taken.

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It is also based on the fact that the human population is diverse on several axes such as sex, age, religion, political opinion, health status, disability, and sexual orientation. The quest for gender equality itself is informed by the fact that women have been targets of discrimination over centuries.

One of the ways in ...