One of the important themes in debating violence in the international political fora is ‘violence against women’, which is explicitly emphasized by The Convention of Istanbul. The Netherlands have ratified this convention but partially due to Dutch influence it was stated that although women do suffer more from violence, that does not mean that there are no male victims of violence and that the state and policy makers should provide for them too. As a consequence, Dutch government aims at ‘gender neutrality’ in their approaches to prevent and treat violence. This approach has dealt with some criticism, some wonder nowadays whether this focus on ‘gender neutrality’ has negative consequences for addressing the hardship that women have to deal with. In our contribution we will try to answer the previous question by looking into three examples: domestic violence, honour-related violence, and prostitution & human trafficking policy, all in the Netherlands.

在国际政治论坛上辩论暴力的重要主题之一是“对妇女的暴力行为”，《伊斯坦布尔公约》明确强调了这一点。荷兰批准了该公约，但部分原因是由于荷兰的影响，尽管妇女确实遭受了更多的暴力侵害，但这并不意味着没有暴力的男性受害者，国家和政策制定者也应为她们提供帮助。结果，荷兰政府在预防和治疗暴力的方法中力求“性别中立”。这种方法已经引起了一些批评，如今有些人怀疑，这种对“性别中立”的关注是否对解决妇女必须面对的困难有负面影响。在我们的贡献中，我们将通过研究三个示例来尝试回答上一个问题：