Katie McQue

4 days ago | context.news | Katie McQue

Seafarers prepare to dock a Russian missile cruiser in Metro Manila, Philippines, January 6, 2019. REUTERS/Eloisa LopezWhat’s the context? Seafarers are the backbone of the global maritime industry, but they're often illegally recruited, scammed into dangerous work and then abandoned at sea.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Katie McQue

A TikTok video shows a young man fanning out a stack of $100 bills. A second flexes his designer clothes. Another man posts a video of himself dancing and wearing a heavy gold chain. They boast to their eager followers about their path to wealth. “BM got me a new car,” states one caption on a video. “$5,000 in a few hours.”Unlike conventional social media influencers hawking travel, brands or recipes, their selling point is crime.

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Katie McQue

The US government has ordered law enforcement agencies, the state department, and some non-profit organizations working to combat sex trafficking to remove references to victims’ LGBTQ+ identities, race and immigration status from their communications and websites, a move experts warn will endanger vulnerable minors.

Feb 12, 2025 | msn.com | Katie McQue

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Feb 12, 2025 | theguardian.com | Katie McQue

A quarter of the world’s countries have engaged in transnational repression – targeting political exiles abroad to silence dissent – in the past decade, new research reveals. The Washington DC-based non-profit organisation Freedom House has documented 1,219 incidents carried out by 48 governments across 103 countries, from 2014 to 2024.