ender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.
             --Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, 23 February 1994 and Beijing Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women,15 September 1995
             But this violence is not always directed at women males may also be targeted because they are identified as powerful or dominant. Men may also be raped, this being used to humiliate them and force them down to the position of women, thus causing them to be thought of as weak and inferior. "In one incident described in the Tadic case, a man was tortured when another prisoner was forced to bite off his testicle. The sexual organs of the man were targeted in order to take away his male identity and make him like a woman." (http://www.iccwomen.org/resources/gender.htm)
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