Mexican Human Rights Defender Receives New Threats
Mexican journalist and human rights defender, Lydia Cacho Ribeiro, is facing increasingly dangerous threats for her work exposing organized crime rings and sexual violence in Mexico. Ms. Cacho Ribeiro received Amnesty International’s Ginetta Sagan Award on International Women’s Day in 2007 and was the laureate of the 2008 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. What is the role of the journalist in advancing justice? What does this reflect about freedom of the press and its relationship to securing other human rights? Most importantly, how can U.S. journalists support the work of colleagues in other parts of the world who often risk their lives by exposing human rights violations?
