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    The Prevalence of Gender Based Violence Against Internally Displaced Women in Oromia Special Zone (Finfinee Zuriya), Ethiopia
    (Mekelle University, 2025-09-25) Meskerem Adane
    Gender based violence is the major national and international human right issue in the recent few years. Displaced women are one of the vulnerable parts of the displaced society. Even though Ethiopia has signed most of international declarations to protect women right; there has been a lot of challenges that shows it is a sensitive matter, yet, the prevalence of gender based violence and its associated effects on the internally displaced women of Ethiopia in general and of Oromia in particular has not been studied well. Therefore this study has intended to assess the prevalence of gender based violence against internally displaced women, in Oromia special zone camps (Finfinee Zuriya). To investigate the identified problem the study has employed descriptive and explanatory research design. Moreover the study applied cross-sectional design in that all relevant data has been collected at a single point of time by using questionnaires and interview as instrument. The study also used non-probability and probability sampling methods to select the study area and the final respondents. As a result the finding revealed the prevalence of any form of gender based violence is 64.4% on internally displaced women, which means that more than half population of internally displaced women are exposed for different form of gender based violence as of physical, sexual and economic violence according to this study, also this result shows how gender based violence against internally displaced women is a very sensitive and attention needed issue is in our country currently. The result has concluded that the prevalence of different forms of gender based violence is very high, nearly two-third of the displaced women reported that women faced different form of Sexual or physical violence in their lifetime, some of the effects of gender based violence are being alienated from their friends and family, temporal and permanent body injury, lack of attention on their school, withdrawal and failure. Nearly two third of displaced women believes those gender based violence are societal problems and the most difficult challenges of every women in the community. As the recommendation creating awareness on gender based violence by using mass media, apply laws and regulations to improve women security, monitor immediate care for victims, further larger scale longitudinal studies to deeply assess socio-cultural factors, consequences and possible mechanisms for gender based violence against internally displaced women.