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Katie McQue

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  • Freelance Investigative Journalist, Freelance
New York, Wales
As seen in: Forbes, MSN, MSN Australia, MSN Ireland, MSN UK, The New York Times, MSN South Africa, The Guardian, The Independent (UK), The Telegraph and
Covers:  Energy, Human Rights, Healthcare, Pharma, Defense, Finance, Oil & Gas, Middle East, Africa, Women's Rights, Migrant Rights, Migration, M&A, investigations, human trafficking
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How Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking

How Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking

Our two-year investigation suggests that the tech giant Meta is struggling to prevent criminals from using it…

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'It's a very big torture': the children growing up in hiding in Dubai | Katie McQue

'It's a very big torture': the children growing up in hiding in Dubai | Katie McQue

With sex outside marriage punishable by jail, migrant workers who become pregnant are often forced to keep th…

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Nigeria rejected British offer to rescue seized Chibok schoolgirls

Nigeria rejected British offer to rescue seized Chibok schoolgirls

Investigation: RAF mission detected Boko Haram kidnappers but action was refused

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Sold into Syrian servitude, Filipina workers tell of abuse, rape and imprisonment

Sold into Syrian servitude, Filipina workers tell of abuse, rape and imprisonment

DUBAI - Josephine Tawaging was being bundled off to the airport in a locked car, begging to be let out. She h…

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Smuggled Iranian fuel and secret nighttime transfers: Seafarers recount how it's done

Smuggled Iranian fuel and secret nighttime transfers: Seafarers recount how it's done

DUBAI - The secret transfers usually take place at night to evade detection by regional coast guards. The shi…

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Denied birth certificates, thousands of children in the UAE go without schooling and health care

Denied birth certificates, thousands of children in the UAE go without schooling and health care

DUBAI - Chinwe's sons are 4 and 6, yet officially they don't exist. After she gave birth, Chinwe and her husb…

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Britain hands billions to projects linked to labour abuse and climate damage

Britain hands billions to projects linked to labour abuse and climate damage

The British government has provided more than £5bn in the past three years to overseas energy and infrastruct…

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Where's Edelyn? The search for the Filipina maid who vanished in Saudi Arabia

Where's Edelyn? The search for the Filipina maid who vanished in Saudi Arabia

delyn Eborda Astudillo wanted a better life for her three children. The 36-year-old from Mariveles in the Phi…

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'They left us to die': UK's Afghan aid staff in hiding from Taliban

'They left us to die': UK's Afghan aid staff in hiding from Taliban

Afghan employees who worked as contractors on UK aid projects fear for their lives after not being granted re…

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'We drink from the toilet': migrants tell of hellish Saudi detention centres

'We drink from the toilet': migrants tell of hellish Saudi detention centres

braahin's* first week of work at a market in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, was also his last. As the sun set on the f…

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'I am starving': the migrant workers abandoned by Dubai employers

'I am starving': the migrant workers abandoned by Dubai employers

assan doesn't know if he will eat today. The 30-year-old Pakistani has lived in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (…

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Windrush scandal continues as Chagos Islanders are pressed to 'go back'

Windrush scandal continues as Chagos Islanders are pressed to 'go back'

British passport holders from the Chagos Islands are being systematically targeted in a "shameful" attempt to…

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'What about justice?': Chagos Islanders pin their hopes on Biden

'What about justice?': Chagos Islanders pin their hopes on Biden

hen Laurenza Piron was forced from her home in the Chagos Islands in 1970, she was sent on a boat to the Seyc…

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