Some truths cannot be captured in tables or charts, they must be seen, felt, and remembered. The visual executive summary brings to life the core findings of the WUJOOD care-centred feminist participatory research, conducted for this SDG-5 monitoring report.
Guided by our core research questions, How do women, men, and transgender persons experience gender-based violence and SRHR barriers across institutional, relational, and cultural domains? Where do systems enable protection, and where do they reproduce harm? How do survivors navigate access, denial, resilience, and silence across Pakistan’s diverse contexts?, the visuals translate statistical patterns, lived insights and recommendations into an illustrated journey across Pakistan’s socio-ecological landscape.
Each frame visualises how gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health and rights violations, and restrictions on bodily autonomy are produced through the interplay of cultural norms, institutional failures, and relational power structures. Rooted in Heise’s socio-ecological model and Galtung’s violence framework, the visuals shift our gaze from numbers to the lived realities uncovered through WUJOOD’s community research revealing what policies, data points, and institutional structures feel like inside the bodies, memories, and daily life of women, transgender persons, men and marginalised communities. They portray not only the forms of violence that are visible, but also those that are normalised, dismissed, and justified.
