Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Gender-based violence GBV against women and girls, is a global pandemic that affects 1 in 3 women in their lifetime. Somalia is one of the leading countries in human rights violations and has one of the highest rates of sexual and gender-based violence SGBV worldwide.
Such violence is more prevalent among women and girls in internally displaced persons IDP camps who lack livelihood and civil protections. Therefore, this study was designed to identify the prevalence and the determinants of gender-based violence in IDP camps in Deynile district, Somalia. A total of three hundred eighty-four women and girls aged 18 years and above living in the selected IDP camps were involved in the study.
The camps were selected randomly while households and participants were selected systematic random sampling. The recall period was set at 12 months August to July Participants were interviewed by well-trained research assistants using pre-tested structured questionnaire.
Data was entered into and analyzed with SPSS The study revealed that gender-based violence was quite common in the IDP camps in Mogadishu's Deynile area. Physical abuse was the most prevalent type of GBV, which was primarily committed by intimate partners, parents, and other family members. The most common form of GBV was physical violence mainly perpetuated by intimate partners.
The study recommends improving some of the modifiable factors that were strongly associated with gender-based violence. Gender Based Violence GBV can be defined as any act that results in or, or is likely to result in physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering from women including threats or acts of coercion, arbitrary deprivation of liberty, private or public, in the family or community Text of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, Gender-based violence can include sexual, physical, mental and economic harm inflicted in public or in private UNHCR - Gender-based Violence, Gender-based violence has been the most pervasive, yet least visible human rights violation in the world Gender-based violence in emergencies UNICEF , particularly in countries engulfed in protracted conflicts and civil wars.
