Gender-based violence
Gender-based violence (GBV) is defined as violence that is targeted at women or men because of their sex and/or their socially constructed gender roles. Both men and women can be victims and perpetrators, and the violence is gender-based owing to beliefs about gender that justify or naturalize it. Gender-based violence is a violation of human rights and a form of discrimination.[1][2]
Against Males
With rare exceptions, international efforts to address gender-based violence, and formal advocacy for and evaluating such efforts, have tended to focus primarily on the kinds of gender-based violence experienced by women. Men and older boys are rarely acknowledged as victims of violence and other forms of gender-based abuse, and when it is acknowledged these kinds of harms have not generally been analyzed or discussed in detail in efforts to counteract gender-based violence against them.[2] Charli Parker of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs in Pittsburgh USA has argued that all violence against men (including sexual violence, forced conscription, and sex-selective massacre) must be recognized as 'gender based', condemned, and addressed by all international human welfare agencies.[2]
Against Females
Feminist sources Routinely claim there is an epidemic of gender-based violence against women. They also go on to point out that male-on-male violence is prevalent. This would actually preclude the notion of gender based violence against women.
In fact rates of violence are declining.
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