Patterns of silence

The 16 Days of Activism remind us that GBV recognises no borders.

Seventeen-year-old Sana Yousaf nev­er imagined that the harmless videos she posted online would one day become evidence in the investigation of her own murder. What began as routine trolling escalated into threats that followed her off the screen and into her real life. Her story sh­­ocked the country not because it was rare, but because it reflects an increasingly common reality.