A victims trauma unit in the Registry could provide counseling, and thereby release the Prosecutor for more procedural matters. The unit would have to provide extensive counseling and provide information to other counseling units and research centers. Dolgopol insisted that the ICC provide broad and extensive counseling, and that it not treat victims as cases. The briefing also explained the difference between gender violence and sexual violence. Gender violence, said panelists, can be equally, if not more, brutal than sexual violence.
Sexual violence involves actual physical violation, which applies more often to women.
Gender violence, on the other hand, is a targeting of victims on the basis of their gender, whether male or female. For example, boys may be killed off if they pose a threat as future soldiers. What many forget is that men and women, no matter who or where they are, are treated on the basis of their gender status. The problem is to discover the common interest hidden among all of the political maneuvering.