Challenges and Coping Mechanisms by Eritrean Women Out of Camp Policy Beneficiaries vis-à-vis their Human Rights in Addis Ababa
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2016-11
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Addis Ababa University
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People move out to find shelters outside of their country of origin in order to escape from
various types of persecutions. In the country of asylum, refugees and asylum seekers may face a
different opportunities in which they could get a solution for their causes of flight. Ethiopia as a
county of asylum for refugees coming from different countries provide supports and maintains
protection and solutions. Out of Camp Policy is one of the strategies that the Ethiopian
government grants for Eritrean refugees to live out of the camp with their own means of
financial capacities.
The study addresses thechallengesof Eritrean Women refugees in the veneration of their human
rights and their coping mechanism while residing in Addis Ababa. The study has been conducted
through a qualitative research design employing a phenomenological approach using both
primary and secondary sources of data. The target groups of the study has been selected by
using both purposive and snowball sampling techniques in which the data have been gathered
through in-depth and key informant interview as well as FGD.
The study found that despite its appreciative packages, the OCP scheme has created room for
the violation of rights and challenging environments for women OCP beneficiaries as a result
of its non assistance principle. All the problems of the Eritrean women OCP beneficiaries are
also emanated from Ethiopia’s’ reservation on the right to work of the 1951 refugee convention.
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