Karl Vick

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Activists from Baloch Yakjehti Committee and civil society hold portraits of Mahrang Baloch, one of Pakistan’s most prominent human rights advocates, during a protest demanding her release, in Karachi on Mar. 24, 2025. Credit - Asif Hassan—AFP/Getty ImagesPakistan has again arrested Mahrang Baloch, a prominent champion of human rights for the country’s ethnic Baloch minority, and barred her lawyer from visiting her in jail.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Karl Vick

Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad gestures to supporters outside the federal courthouse after testifying at the trial of her would-be assassins in New York, Mar. 18, 2025. Credit - Seth Wenig—APOn Thursday, after deliberating for less than four hours, a federal jury returned guilty verdicts against two Eastern European self-described gangsters hired by Iran to send a hit man to kill an Iranian dissident at her Brooklyn home.

Jan 16, 2025 | yahoo.com | Karl Vick

An Emergency Response Room communal kitchen in Omdurman, Sudan, on June 2, 2024. Credit - Mazin Alrasheed—ReutersParadoxically, Sudan is home to both the worst humanitarian crisis in the world and the most heartening possible response to it.

Dec 24, 2024 | time.com | Karl Vick |Andrew Johnson

December 24, 2024 10:22 AM ESTNarges Mohammadi picked up Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid 's Tale while in prison. The activist had been sentenced to 16 years for challenging Iran's enforcement of what Mohammadi terms gender apartheid—a system of dress codes, sexual subjugation, and coercive control enforced, as in Atwood's book, by men who have taken power as a theocracy. Mohammadi was still in prison when she won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2023.

Nov 22, 2024 | time.com | Karl Vick

By Karl VickNovember 22, 2024 9:00 AM ESTFor 75 years, the United Nations agency known as UNRWA has been the backbone of health and education for Palestinians with refugee status, a population that now totals 6 million people, including about 1.4 million in Gaza. In the past, whenever fighting broke out, the organization would also serve any civilian seeking shelter in the enclave’s 300 primary schools—protected by the blue flag of the United Nations.