Katie McQue

New York, Wales

Freelance Investigative Journalist at Freelance

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Oceans summit ends in failure to protect marine life

1 week ago | observer.co.uk | Katie McQue

The third United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice concluded on Friday on a muted note, falling short of its headline goal of securing the 60 ratifications needed to enforce the High Seas treaty. Critics also claimed the conference failed to address fossil fuel emissions, deep sea mining and practices that may threaten the future of the ocean.
'I’ve Seen Hell': Inside the Global Crisis of Seafarer Exploitation

2 weeks ago | pulitzercenter.org | Katie McQue |Amruta Byatnal |Ayla Jean Yackley

What’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.
They hoped their children’s deaths would bring change. Then a Colorado bill to protect kids online failed

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Katie McQue

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They hoped their children’s deaths would bring change. Then a Colorado bill to protect kids online failed

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Katie McQue

Bereaved parents saw their hopes for change dashed after a bill meant to protect children from sexual predators and drug dealers online died in the Colorado state legislature last month. Several of those parents had helped shape the bill, including Lori Schott, whose 18-year-old daughter Annalee died by suicide in 2020 after consuming content on TikTok and Instagram about depression, anxiety and suicide.
‘I’ve seen hell’: inside the global crisis of seafarer exploitation

3 weeks ago | timeslive.co.za | Katie McQue

FEATURE ‘I’ve seen hell’: inside the global crisis of seafarer exploitation Young seafarers are lured into dangerous work, then abandoned 05 June 2025 - 04:30 By Katie McQue When coast guard officers boarded junior seafarer Omkar Pawar’s ship off Trinidad and Tobago in 2020, one of them pointed a gun in his face...
“I’ve seen hell”: Inside the global seafarer exploitation crisis

3 weeks 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.
BM Boys: the Nigerian sextortion network hiding in plain sight on TikTok

1 month 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.
‘People will die’: alarm after US orders removal of identity references from anti-trafficking efforts

Mar 21, 2025 | 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.
China tops list of countries trying to silence exiled dissidents over past decade, study shows

Feb 12, 2025 | msn.com | Katie McQue

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China tops list of countries trying to silence exiled dissidents over past decade, study shows

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.

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