APPRAISING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN ADDIS ABABA CITY ADMINISTRATION: FROM GROUND RULE AND REGULATION PERSPECTIVES

Abstract

This article focuses on appraising the root causes of violence against women and children in Addis Ababa city administration. Hence, descriptive and explanatory research types, 517 sample size and both primary and secondary data were used. The article conclude that, even though different conventions and declaration, homegrown policies, rules and regulations were in place, the practice against women and children violence in Addis Ababa is poor. The involvement of government bodies, civil society, professional and humanitarian association, and NGO was recapped inadequate. Regardless of the types and causes of violence, violence against women and children has become an urban epidemic that has taken a toll on women and children's physical, psychological, sexual, and economic lives. Lawlessness and implementation gap; negligence and lack of sense of belongingness; economic problem/poverty; increase of migrants to Addis Ababa; harmful customs and disobedience; proliferation of sex films and the problem of using social media; proliferation of hookah and alcohol shops, proliferation of drug users, lack of coordinated civil society organizations and political instability were cited. Of which, urban poverty, unemployment, slum habitation, lawlessness, social structure, political turmoil, emigration, acculturation, wrong perception, youth addiction, psycho-problems, negative discrimination, poor infrastructure, poor media platforms and leadership failure were identified as root causes of violence against women and children. Therefore, the city administration should work on building a multi-sectoral and multi-level policy climate; building urban leadership and policy execution capacity; building women and child-sensitive social protection; creating comprehensive legislation landscape and developing victim compensation platform.