Gender-Based Violence and Child Education Rights: A Study of Ministry Of Women and Human Rights Development, Hiran Somalia
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2024
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This study was set to investigate the effects of gender-based violence on girls’ education rights in Hiran, Somalia. The following objectives were examined, to examine the effects of sexual violence on the educational rights of girls in Hiran, Somalia, to assess the impact of physical violence on girls’ right to education in Hiran, Somalia, and to evaluate the effects of emotional violence on girls’ education rights in Hiran district-Somalia school. This study was underpinned on the Social Learning Theory of Bandura which gives emphasis to observational learning modeling. The study used descriptive correlation research design that focused on investigations which was majorly quantitative to collect and analyze data in order to describe the specific phenomenon in its current trends, current events and linkages between different factors at the current time, a sample size of 120 respondents was selected from the population of 172 people using, Slovene’s formula. A number of tools were used during collection of data and these included: questionnaire, Interviews and documentary review. It was discovered that the average mean of the effects of Sexual violence on educational rights of girls in Hiran District, Somalia was 3.98 equivalent to high. This implies that Sexual violence affects the educational rights of girls. The study also revealed that the average mean of the effects of Physical violence on educational rights of girls in Hiran District, Somalia was 3.9 which were also high on the scale and this implies that Physical violence has a significant impact on violation of the educational rights of girls in Hiran District, Somalia. It was also found out that the average mean of effects of Emotional Violence on educational rights of girls in Hiran District, Somalia was 3.9 which is equivalent to very high. The implication is that Gender-based Violence hinders the protection of educational rights of girls in Hiran District. The study concluded that violence has always affected the child’s rights in several ways. The study recommended counseling parents on the proper ways of handling the families in order to reduce their ways of violence in the families, the alternative ways of punishments can therefore substitute the corporal punishments of abuse, this will lead to the abolition of the forms of abuse that are disastrous to the families. More so the government should enact and enforce restrictive measures since gender-based violence has been found as the main cause of physical harm in Hiran District. The government should strengthen education programs since these people with low level of education are more likely to engage into violence because of little knowledge on the outcomes.