Lydia Cacho

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Lydia Cacho is a Mexican investigative journalist, author, and human rights activist renowned for exposing organized crime, corruption, and sex trafficking despite facing severe threats and persecution.

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instanceOf Mexican writer
human
human rights activist
journalist
awardReceived Amnesty International Ginetta Sagan Award for Women and Children's Rights
Civil Courage Prize
Ginetta Sagan Award
International Press Freedom Award
Olof Palme Prize
UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize
World Press Freedom Hero
cause defense of women and children
fight against human trafficking
freedom of expression
countryOfCitizenship Mexico
dateOfBirth 1963-04-12
employer Centro Integral de Atención a las Mujeres (CIAM) Cancún
fieldOfWork anti–human trafficking activism
children's rights
human rights
investigative journalism
women's rights
gender female
genre investigative reporting
non-fiction
hasBeenSubjectOf death threats
judicial harassment
kidnapping
torture
hasSubject child pornography
corruption
gender violence
human rights abuses
organized crime
sex trafficking
knownFor denouncing political corruption linked to trafficking
exposing child sex trafficking networks in Mexico
investigations into organized crime
languageOfWorkOrName Spanish
name Lydia Cacho
notableWork Esclavas del poder
Los demonios del Edén
Memorias de una infamia
Slavery Inc.
occupation human rights activist
journalist
writer
placeOfBirth Mexico City
positionHeld founder of CIAM Cancún
residence Quintana Roo

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