Category Archives: Features

June – VICE News (selected)

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‘Syrian 11-Year-Old and Father Trapped in Casablanca Airport, Relatives Tell VICE News’, VICE News, June 24, 2015 (in French) 

‘Tens of Thousands Gather Across the UK to Protest Conservative Austerity Measures’, VICE News, June 20, 2015

‘More Children Are Making the Dangerous Journey to Europe Alone’, VICE News, June 11, 2015

‘”Dying Behind Bars”: Human Rights Activists Jailed and Deported Before Azerbaijan’s European Games’, VICE News, June 10, 2015

‘Gay Marriage Is Legal But Abortion Is Still a Crime in Ireland — Even in Rape or Incest Cases’, VICE News, June 9, 2015

‘Most Bhutanese People Preferred Life Without Democracy, Prime Minister Tells VICE News’, June 5, 2015 (in Dutch)

May – VICE News (selected)

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‘Ireland Just Became the First Country to Approve Gay Marriage by a Popular Vote’, VICE News, May 23, 2015 (my coverage was mentioned on broadsheet.ie)

IMG_1524IMG_1428Covering Ireland’s same-sex marriage referendum in Dublin.

‘”Tread Softly, Because You Tread on My Dreams”: Ireland Votes on Gay Marriage’, VICE News, May 22, 2015 (This article was later discussed on France 24)

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‘Will Ireland Become the First Country to Legalize Gay Marriage by Popular Vote?’, VICE News, May 20, 2015 (Referenced on thejournal.ie)

‘UK-Based Russian Businessman Possibly Poisoned With Rare Chinese Plant’, VICE News, May 19, 2015

‘Bahrain’s King Heads to UK Horse Show, While Human Rights Activist Heads Back to Prison for a Tweet‘, VICE News, May 16, 2015

‘President of Liberland Arrested for Trespassing into His Own Self-Declared Country’, VICE News, May 11, 2015 (also in Spanish, French, and Italian)

‘Conservative Party Sweeps UK Election and Three Opposition Leaders Resign’, VICE News, May 8, 2015 (in Spanish)

‘Exit Poll Shows UK’s Conservative Party Wins Most Seats in Election, But Remain Shy of Victory’, May 7, 2015

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‘Somali Government Orders Journalists to Rename Militant Group’, VICE News, May 4, 2015

April – VICE News (selected)

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‘Food Banks Are a Big Issue in Next Week’s UK General Election’, VICE News, April 30, 2015

‘”The Ground You Think Is Solid Suddenly Gives Way”: At Least 4,000 Dead in Nepal Earthquake Tragedy’, VICE News, April 27, 2015

‘”The European Asylum System Is Dysfunctional”: UNHCR Speaks to VICE News About the European Migrant Crisis’, VICE News, April 22, 2015

‘A Teenage Survivor of the Mediterranean’s Worst Migrant Disaster Speaks of His Traumatic Ordeal’, VICE News, April 22, 2015 (This piece in Dutch)

‘A Tiananmen Leader-Turned US Army Chaplain Is Desperate To Visit His Dying Mother in China’, VICE News, April 20, 2015

‘More Migrant Deaths Reported a Day After 700 Are Feared Drowned in Mediterranean “Mass Cemetery”‘, VICE News, April 20, 2015

‘As Many as 400 Migrants Feared Drowned as Mediterranean Death Rate Soars’, VICE News, April 15, 2015

‘The Girls Who Escaped: One Year After the Boko Haram Kidnapping, Some Chibok Schoolgirls Have Left Nigeria’, VICE News, April 13, 2015 – (Also in Dutch on VICE Netherlands, Spanish on VICE News Spain, Portuguese in VICE Portugal and in French on VICE News France. This story was quoted in Slovakian broadsheet SME)

‘Tibetan Activists Condemn China’s “Patriotism” Tests For Buddhist Monks’, VICE News, April 8, 2015

‘Malaysia Reintroduces Indefinite Detention to Stop “Terrorists” – And Maybe to Quell Opposition’, VICE News, April 7, 2015

‘Uganda’s LGBT Community is Fighting Back – With Information’, VICE News, April 4, 2015 – I spoke to one of the founders of Uganda’s first LGBT magazine ‘Bombastic’.

‘Death Toll Rises to 147 After Al Shabaab Gunmen Attack Kenyan University’, VICE News, April 2, 2015

March – VICE News (selected), 95bFM

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‘”A Tragedy of Dignity”: Life as One of Bangladesh’s “Untouchables”‘, VICE News, Mar 30, 2015

‘With a Week to Go Before the Election, Nigeria’s President Foresees Boko Haram Defeat Within a Month’, VICE News, Mar 20, 2015

‘We Spoke to the Lawyer Facing Death Threats for Defending the Doctor Who Helped Find Bin Laden’, VICE News, Mar 19, 2015 (joint byline)

‘We Spoke to a North Korean Defector Who Escaped Terrible Working Conditions Overseas’, VICE News, Mar 17, 2015

‘”Russia Is Not the Same as Putin”: Marina Litvinenko, Widow of Murdered Ex-KGB Agent, Speaks to VICE News’, VICE News, Mar 16, 2015 (Here’s this piece in Romanian)

‘Thousands of ‘Non-Conformist’ and Plague Skeletons Are Being Dug Out of Bedlam’, VICE News, Mar 10, 2015

‘A Legal Loophole Has Legalized Ecstasy in Ireland – Until Thursday’, VICE News, Mar 10, 2015 (I later appeared on New Zealand’s 95bFM to talk about this)

‘Is This the “Final Push”? Chad and Niger Enter Nigeria to Tackle Boko Haram’, VICE News, Mar 9, 2015

‘Iranian Women Are Taking to Facebook to Protest Against Compulsory Hijabs’, VICE News, Mar 9, 2015 (Recommended by Spiegel Online)

‘Human Rights Activists Remain Behind Bars as Azerbaijan Prepares to Host First European Games’, VICE News, Mar 3, 2015

‘”This is a Witch Hunt”: Saudi Blogger May Go Back on Trial For Apostasy and Face the Death Penalty’, VICE News, Mar 2, 2015

February – VICE News (selected)

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‘The Islamic State has Reportedly Captured At Least 150 Members of a Christian Minority Group’, VICE News, Feb 24, 2015

‘Former Maldives President Manhandled into Court then Denied Bail on “Terrorism” Charges’, VICE News, Feb 23, 2015

‘”I Don’t Know What I Did”: We Spoke to a Lord’s Resistance Army Escapee Who Wants Remaining Fighters to Return Home Too’, VICE News, Feb 23, 2015

‘”I Want to Keep Talking About it”: VICE News Interviews Peter Greste About His Time in Egyptian Jail’, VICE News, Feb 19, 2015

‘Bomb Attacks Rock Nigeria as Neighbors Step Up Fight Against Boko Haram’, VICE News, Feb 17, 2015

‘Nigeria’s Two-Time Leader Backs Ex-Military Ruler as Best of a Bad Bunch’, VICE News, Feb 16, 2015

‘Archbishop of Erbil Appeals for Military Action to Halt Christian “Genocide” in Iraq’, VICE News, Feb 11, 2015

‘Slovakia is Holding a Referendum to Ban Same Sex Marriage’, VICE News, Feb 7, 2015

‘Fight Against DRC Rebels Hits New Crisis Amid Massacres And Scores of Abuse Allegations’, VICE News, Feb 5, 2015

‘Secret Video Shows Horrific Animal Abuse in UK Halal Slaughterhouse’, VICE News, Feb 3, 2015

December – VICE News, Simon Cumbers Media Fund (selected)

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‘Meet the Chinese Dissident Who Wants to go Home, but Just Can’t Get Arrested’, VICE News, Dec 31, 2014 (Here’s this piece in Chinese)

‘The Greek WWII Hero and EU Parliamentarian Who Nearly Blew Up Winston Churchill 70 Christmases Ago’, VICE News, Dec 25, 2014

‘”We Saw Our Sister’s Body. It Was Her First Day in School”: Survivors Tell of Horrors of Peshawar Massacre’, VICE News, Dec 23, 2014

‘2014 VICE News Awards: Most Surprisingly Tense Independence Vote – Scotland’, VICE News, Dec 23, 2014

‘Pakistan Lifting the Death Moratorium for “Terrorists” Might Backfire’, VICE News, Dec 18, 2014

‘Mass Grave Found in Eastern Syria Suspected to Hold Bodies of 230 Tribesmen Killed by Islamic State’, VICE News, Dec 18, 2014

‘Hamas Is To Be Taken Off the European Union’s List of Terrorist Groups’, VICE News, Dec 17, 2014

‘Pakistan Lifts Moratorium on the Death Penalty as Funerals Continue for 132 Murdered Children’, VICE News, Dec 17, 2014

‘Thousands of “Pinstriped Nazis” March Against Islamization in German City of Dresden’, VICE News, Dec 16, 2014

‘Live Updates: Police Raid Sydney Cafe in Hostage Siege’, VICE News, Dec 15, 2014

‘More Than 120 Dead as “Overcrowded” Ferry Sinks in DR Congo’, VICE News, Dec 15, 2014

‘Catholic Church Advisory Group Says Obligatory Celibacy May Have Contributed to Child Abuse’, VICE News, Dec 12, 2014

‘Why the UK’s “Modern Slavery” Problem Is Only Getting Worse, And New Laws Might Not Help’, VICE News, Dec 12, 2014

‘Boko Haram Blamed For Another Bombing in Nigeria, Killing 30’, VICE News, Dec 12, 2014

‘Islamic State Allegedly Charging $1M for the Return of James Foley’s Body’, VICE News, Dec 11, 2014

‘Police Arrest 76 at Eric Garner Solidarity “Die-In” Protest in North London Shopping Center’, VICE News, Dec 11, 2014

‘The UK Wants to Deport a Ugandan Woman Who Fled Her Country After an Exorcism’, VICE News, Dec 7, 2014

‘China Makes a New Year’s Resolution: To Stop Harvesting the Organs of Executed Prisoners’, VICE News, Dec 5, 2014

‘Campaigners Say British Authorities Must End “Aggressive Pursuit” of Women For False Rape Claims’, VICE News, Dec 3, 2014

‘Thirty Years After Bhopal’s Union Carbide Disaster, Gas Leak Survivors Are Still Suffering’, VICE News, Dec 2, 2014

‘Kenyan President Vows War After Militant Group Al-Shabaab Massacres 36 Quarry Workers’, VICE News, Dec 2, 2014

‘UK National Counter-Terrorism Awareness Week Included an Event on Protecting Your Fertilizer From Terrorists’, VICE News, Dec 1, 2014

I also wrote about what an incredible opportunity the Simon Cumbers Media Fund is.

November – VICE News, Business Insider, Plan International (selected)

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‘UK Offers New Powers to Scotland – But Independence Campaigners Say It’s Not Enough’, VICE News, Nov 27, 2014

‘Congolese Gynecologist Awarded EU’s Top Human Rights Prize for Work Treating Rape Victims’, VICE News, Nov 26, 2014 (This piece in Spanish) IMG_9985-2 I travelled to Strasbourg to report on a European Parliament plenary session. This is a photo of Dr. Denis Mukwege that I took right after he was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

‘Pope Francis Warns European Union That the Mediterranean Risks Becoming a “Vast Migrant Cemetery”‘, VICE News, Nov 26, 2014 (and in Spanish)

‘Boko Haram Accused of Massacring Fish Sellers, as Nigerian Government Ends State of Emergency’, VICE News, Nov 24, 2014

‘British Government Threatens to Close Six Private Muslim Schools Where Students Risk “Radicalization”‘, VICE News, Nov 21, 2014

‘North Korea Might Already Be Preparing For a Fourth Nuclear Test’, VICE News, Nov 20, 2014

‘Caught Between the Islamic State and Shiite Militias, Gays are Dying in Iraq’, VICE News, Nov 20, 2014 (Here’s this piece in Dutch)

‘Five Women and a Baby Confirmed Dead as Police Storm Indian ‘Godman’s’ Compound’, VICE News, Nov 19, 2014

‘Video Shows Hong Kong Protesters Attempting to Smash into Government HQ’, VICE News, Nov 19, 2014

‘Organized Child Sexual Abuse in Britain Extends Well Beyond Rotherham’, VICE News, Nov 18, 2014

‘UK Police Investigating Alleged Murders in Government Child Abuse Scandal’, VICE News, Nov 17, 2014

‘FIFA’s Corruption Report Immediately Labeled “Erroneous” by Its Own Investigator’, VICE News, Nov 13, 2014

‘Sweden Accused of Forcing Teenager Back to North Korea Because of Asylum Errors’, VICE News, Nov 13, 2014

‘Europe’s Philae Probe Is the First Spacecraft to Land on a Comet’, VICE News, Nov 12, 2014

‘United Nations Condemns Australia Over “Inhuman” Treatment of Asylum Seekers’, VICE News, Nov 12, 2014

‘Kuwait Offers Stateless Arabs Citizenship in African Country 3,000 Miles Away’, VICE News, Nov 10, 2014 (This piece was also published on Business Insider)

‘Nigeria Suicide Bombing Kills at Least 48 Schoolchildren’, VICE News, Nov 10, 2014

”This Is What We Need’: Latvia’s Foreign Minister Announces He Is Gay’, VICE News, Nov 7, 2014

‘Leaked Documents Show Hundreds of Companies Like IKEA, FedEx, and Amazon are Dodging Tax in Luxembourg’, VICE News, Nov 6, 2014

‘Body of IRA Kidnapping Victim Brendan Megraw Found After 36 Years’, VICE News, Nov 4, 2014

”It’s a Form of Torture’: UNHCR Launches Campaign to Eradicate Statelessness’, VICE News, Nov 4, 2014

I was also asked to do a blog for Plan International’s ‘Because I am a Girl’ campaign.

I was taking photos at the ‘Occupy London’ protest at Parliament Square, Nov 22. IMG_9739 IMG_9643 IMG_9752

October – VICE News, HuffPost Live, University Observer, Suas 8×8 (selected)

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‘North Korea Quarantines Visiting Foreigners to Protect Against Ebola’, VICE News, Oct 31, 2014

‘Death of Zambia’s Michael Sata Brings Africa’s First White President Since Apartheid’, VICE News, Oct 29, 2014

‘This Woman Was Awarded $685,737 After Learning Her Boyfriend Was an Undercover Cop Sent to Spy on Her’, VICE News, Oct 29, 2014. (This interview was later aggregated by Gawker.)

‘Life with Boko Haram: The Escapees Speak Out’, VICE News, Oct 27, 2014 (This piece in Spanish)

‘We Spoke to One of the Cardinals Who Opposed the Church Welcoming Gay People’, VICE News, Oct 24, 2014

‘Britain’s Battle to End Female Genital Mutilation’, VICE News, Oct 24, 2014

‘Three Denver Girls Skipped School and Flew Off to Join the Islamic State’, VICE News, Oct 22, 2014

‘Soft Drinks Might Be Rotting Your DNA’, VICE News, Oct 21, 2014

‘Assisted Suicide Debate Highlighted By Starvation of UK Grandmother’, VICE News, Oct 20, 2014

‘No One Knows What Nigeria’s Government Is Doing to Rescue Our Kidnapped Schoolgirls’, VICE News, Oct 16, 2014. (As a result of this piece I was asked to appear as a guest on HuffPost Live’s WorldBrief to discuss the latest developments in Nigeria.)

‘Britain’s Student Union Votes Against Condemning the Islamic State – Because That Would Be Islamophobic’, VICE News, Oct 16, 2014

‘Protester Beaten by Hong Kong Police Says He Was Assaulted Again in Custody’, VICE News, Oct 15, 2014

‘Has the Catholic Church Changed Its Views on Same-Sex Relations?’, VICE News, Oct 14, 2014

‘Austrian Teenager Who Joined Islamic State “Wants to Come Home” – But Fears the Consequences’, VICE News, Oct 13, 2014

Several of my VICE News articles are also available in French.

And in German.

And Italian.

I was asked to contribute to the University Observer’s 20th anniversary special supplement, which also includes pieces from Dara O’Briain, Pat Leahy, Samantha Libreri, and many others.

A photo I took during the Rwandan genocide commemorations this year was published in a free supplement called ‘World’s Best News’, and included in an exhibition run as part of the Suas 8×8 festival. The exhibition is touring Irish campuses until the end of October.

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Scottish Independence Referendum – VICE News

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I covered the Scottish independence referendum for VICE News.

‘Scotland Wraps Up Historic Day of Voting as First Referendum Results Are Declared’, 19th September, 2014, VICE News

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‘Scotland’s First Minister Resigns as No Vote Leads to Hostility’, 19th September, 2014, VICE News

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‘Residents of England’s Northernmost Town Share Their Thoughts on Scottish Independence’, 18th September, 2014, VICE News

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No hay independencia para Escocia, pero el referendo les puede servir para mucho, 22nd September, 2014, VICE Mexico

Old media reports deprive Rwandan genocide survivors of the right to be forgotten – World and Media

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An ethical issue I came across in Rwanda was the question of whether it’s ok to identify someone who has been through a traumatic incident. Is a survivor capable of full consent? On that topic, I wrote for World and Media about how the resurfacing of old media reports can negatively impact genocide survivors.

‘We meet again a few weeks later. Nyiramilimo sits in a bright, airy office, on the fourth floor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A portrait of President Paul Kagame hangs over her head. She’s busy: her phone buzzes as we talk.

She tells me story after story.

The story of a girl, aged 15 during the genocide, who was taken by her parents’ killers to the DRC and raped. When she escaped she was pregnant, and after she gave birth to a son she handed him to relatives to raise so she could attend university and start her life anew. She met a boy and they got engaged; then he travelled to Canada to finish his schooling. There, on the TV, he saw old footage of her speaking about her rape and called her in shock. With her engagement over, the girl called Nyiramilimo asking “what do I do? I don’t want that story to be following me my whole life. Now I am well, I just finished university and I want to be normal.”’

Read the full piece at WorldandMedia.com