Gender or sexual violence, can it be stopped or how can it be prevented? This forthcoming essay is going to include a number of issues relating to the ongoing battle against sexual or gender related violence in schools, and not just in schools but also in public all over this and other countries. The essay is going to be in argument form with the argument being on the side against gender and sexual violence, in other words the essay is agreeing with articles, which are against sexual or gender violence. Statistics and graphs as well as other authors points of views have been included to increase ones understanding on the subject of sexual and gender violence.
             To someone who reads about such acts as sexual violence in schools, it would be hard to believe that there would be anyone arguing for more sexual or gender violence. So as an opposing argument, well there just is not one to put forward.
             First one must deal with the issue of what sexual and gender violence is. Gender refers differences between men and women, in other words masculine and feminine compared to male and female. So gender violence is violence that is aimed at women or men because of their sex. Gender violence normally always affects one sex more than another. Examples would include "the forcible recruitment of young boys into the army who are put through violent indoctrination, and then made to perform suicidal missions in order to prove their masculinity; and the killing of pregnant women by the slashing of their wombs and removal of their foetuses."
             Expanded Definition of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
             used by UNHCR and Implementing Partners
             ... gender-based violence is violence that is directed against a person on the basis of gender or sex. It includes acts that inflict physical, mental or sexual harm or suffering, threats of such acts, coercion and other deprivations of liberty.... While women, men, boys and girls can be victims of gender-bas...