Human Right Protection and Domestic Violence in Selected Civil Society Organizations Bossaso, Somalia.
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2012-12
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Kampala International University, College of Humanities and social sciences.
Abstract
The study was set out to investigate the relationship between human right protection
and domestic violence in selected civil society organizations Bosaso, Somalia. The
objectives of the study were to describe the profile of respondents, determine the level
of human right protection, determine the level of domestic violence, establish whether
there is significant difference between human right protection and profile characteristics
of respondents, and to determine whether there is significant relationship between
human right protection and domestic violence selected civil society organizations
Bosaso, Somalia.
The first major objective of this study was profile characteristics of respondents in
which the study indicates most respondents were female with 54(S4%), for age, the
range 18 — 30 had the highest respondents with 59(59%), over 42(42%) had bachelors
in education level and 6l(61%) were single. In the second objective, the study shows
that, human right protection in Bosaso Somalia. The researcher found out that the
average mean was 2.731 (High) on Likert scale, This is a high average and therefore
this confirms that the level of human right protection in Bosaso Somalia is high.
Determining the level of domestic violence in Bosaso Somalia was the third study
objective of this study, The level of domestic violence in Bosaso Somalia had an
average mean of 2.473 (Low). The twelve qualitative questions on Likert scale, seven of
them ranked high and the remaining five questions were ranked low. This means that
the general, the level of domestic violence was low. The highest mean was 2.85 for
whether in Somalia, women and girls play role in decision making in the family and the
lowest was 2.08 for whether in Somalia many girls affected HIV due to transmitted FGM
practice,
The findings were positive, insignificant relationship between human right protection
and domestic violence with r = 0.066, sig 0.056> 0,05. Also there was significant
difference between human right protection and gender, age, sex and education level.
Despite the fact that human right organizations safeguard the civil society in order to
attain their full potential of humanity both dir and indirect but the domestic violence still
persist in the Somali communities in very high level due to cultural practices, political
instability, absence of low in forcibility, lack of public sensitization of effective gender
policy that hindered the overall development of the people and explicitly women the
extent to which women experience continuous violation against their human right such
as physical, philosophical, cultural, sexual and social violence with hands of some body
that close to them.
Description
A Thesis Presented to The College of High Degrees and Research Kampala International University Kampala, Uganda In Partial Fulfillment of The Requirement of The Degree Masters of Arts in Human Rights and Development.
Keywords
Human Right Protection, Domestic Violence, Civil Society Organizations Bossaso