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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

The Guardian — Our two-year investigation suggests that the tech giant Meta is struggling to prevent criminals from using its platforms to buy and sell children for sex
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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

The Guardian — With sex outside marriage punishable by jail, migrant workers who become pregnant are often forced to keep their babies locked away
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Nigeria rejected British offer to rescue seized Chibok schoolgirls

Nigeria rejected British offer to rescue seized Chibok schoolgirls

The Guardian — 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

The Washington Post — DUBAI - Josephine Tawaging was being bundled off to the airport in a locked car, begging to be let out. She had traveled from her home in the Philippines a month earlier to find work in Dubai, the Middle East's glitzy business hub, she later recalled.
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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

The Washington Post — DUBAI - The secret transfers usually take place at night to evade detection by regional coast guards. The ships anchor in the Persian Gulf just outside the territorial limits of the United Arab Emirates, and then, individually, small boats carrying smuggled Iranian diesel shift their loads to the waiting vessels, according to seafarers who have witnessed the trade.
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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

The Washington Post — DUBAI - Chinwe's sons are 4 and 6, yet officially they don't exist. After she gave birth, Chinwe and her husband could not afford to pay the medical bills, totaling $16,000, and the hospital refused to give them the documents needed for birth certificates until the debt was settled, she said.
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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 Guardian — The British government has provided more than £5bn in the past three years to overseas energy and infrastructure projects linked to labour abuses and environmental damage, according to documents and interviews with workers. The funding - a combination of loans and guarantees - comes from the government's export credit agency, UK Export Finance (UKEF), a government department to help UK companies access business contracts overseas.
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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

The Guardian — delyn Eborda Astudillo wanted a better life for her three children. The 36-year-old from Mariveles in the Philippines, and her husband, Crisanto, had been unemployed for six years and things were getting desperate. So, in early 2015, Edelyn made the decision to travel to the Middle East to get a job as a domestic worker.
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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

The Guardian — Afghan employees who worked as contractors on UK aid projects fear for their lives after not being granted resettlement in Britain. The Guardian has been in contact with four families who said they had been targeted by the Taliban because they worked for the UK government, and have now been forced into hiding.
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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

The Guardian — braahin's* first week of work at a market in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, was also his last. As the sun set on the fifth day, the police descended upon the crowds and rounded up the 40-year-old Somali, along with several other undocumented migrant workers.
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'I am starving': the migrant workers abandoned by Dubai employers

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

The Guardian — assan doesn't know if he will eat today. The 30-year-old Pakistani has lived in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), for over a decade, employed as a construction worker. But when the Covid-19 pandemic took hold, he lost his job. Without his salary he cannot afford to live in the UAE.
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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'

The Guardian — British passport holders from the Chagos Islands are being systematically targeted in a "shameful" attempt to have them removed from the UK, the Observer can reveal. The revelations expose a fresh dimension of the UK's hostile environment, showing that the strategy also persecutes passport-holding British citizens of colour.
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'What about justice?': Chagos Islanders pin their hopes on Biden

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

The Guardian — hen Laurenza Piron was forced from her home in the Chagos Islands in 1970, she was sent on a boat to the Seychelles. Her parents and siblings were sent to Mauritius. It was two decades before they located one another again, and even then none of them could afford a reunion.
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Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting —
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The Observer —
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