Human Right Protection and Domestic Violence in Selected Civil Society Organizations Bosaso, Somalia

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preliminaries

Chapter Page

One THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE 1

Introduction/Background Information 1

Statement of the Problem 5

Purpose of the Study 6

Research Objectives 6

Research Questions 7

Hypothesis 7

Scope 8

Significance of the Study 8

Operational Definitions of Key Terms 9

Two LITERATURE REVIEW 10

Introduction 10

Theoretical Perspectives 12

Review of Related Literature 13

Related Studies 13

Three METHODOLOGY 16

Research Design 16

Research Population 16

Sample Size 16

Sampling Procedure 17

Research Instrument 17

Validity and Reliability of the Instrument 17

Data Gathering Procedures 18

Data Analysis 19

Ethical Considerations 19

Limitations of the Study 20

Four DATA ANALYSIS PRESENTATION AND INTERPRETATIONS 21

Demographic Characteristics of the Respondents 21

Level of Human Right Protection 22

Level of Domestic violence 24

Level of Significant difference 26

Level of Relationship 28

Five FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 31

Findings 31

Conclusion 33

Recommendations 34

References 35

Appendices -

Appendix IA - Transmittal Letter 37

Appendix I B - Transmittal letter for the respondents 38

Appendix II - Clearance from Ethics Committee 39

Appendix III - Informed Consent 40

APPENDIX IVB- Research instruments 41

Researcher’s Curriculum Vitae 44