Lydia Cacho
Lydia Cacho Ribeiro (born April 12, 1963 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican journalist , feminist and human rights activist .
Life
Cacho Ribeiro's mother emigrated from France to Mexico during World War II , where she married a local engineer. In 1985, Cacho moved to Cancun and worked for the culture section of the Novedades de Cancun newspaper . In the mid-1990s she wrote articles on the prostitution of Cuban and Argentine girls in the city. There she runs a facility for children and women who have escaped prostitution, the Centro Integral de Atención a las Mujeres . In 2003, her article in Por Esto newspaper about the sexual abuse of minors caught the attention of the public when she mentioned a local hotel owner by name. She then wrote the book Los Demonios del Edén ( The Demons of Eden ), in which she accused the businessman Jean Succar Kuri of being involved in a ring of child pornography and prostitution. She had testimony and a film shot with a hidden camera as evidence. The book also mentioned prominent politicians such as Emilio Gamboa Patrón and Miguel Ángel Yunes as implicated.
After several arrests and charges, the United Nations Human Rights Commission recommended that Cacho leave the country and apply for political asylum in 2008 .
Cacho also researched the sexual exploitation of minors from other countries such as Turkey , Israel , Japan , Cambodia . Your book Slavery. Inside the billionaire human trafficking business , 2011 also appeared in German.
In August 2012, Cacho fled abroad following a death threat. The threat could be related to her last book, as she described, among other things, the human trafficking of Mexican drug cartels.
On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day 2014, she was named by Reporters Without Borders as one of the world's "hundred heroes of freedom of information".
Awards (selection)
- In 2007 she received the Amnesty International Ginetta Sagan Prize for the rights of women and children
- 2007: Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF).
- In 2008 she received the UNESCO / Guillermo Cano Prize Freedom of the World Press and the Tucholsky Prize (Sweden).
- In 2009, Cacho was awarded the University of Michigan Wallenberg Medal . Her courageous work as a journalist, who fights to raise public awareness of corruption, which enables the criminal exploitation of women and children, was recognized.
- In 2011 Lydia Cacho received the Olof Palme Prize .
Works
- Los Demonios del Edén (2005), Grijalbo Mondadori, México, ISBN 968-5957-58-4 .
- Slavery. Inside the billionaire human trafficking business . Fischer, Frankfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-010010-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Lydia Cacho in the catalog of the German National Library
- 2007 - Lydia Cacho Ribeiro, Mexico. Biography on the Amnesty International USA website
- Website of the human rights activist
- The new slavery doesn't need chains - Interview PNN
- Jürgen Neubauer: “I'm not a fearful person.” Portrait in CulturMag from April 16, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ Philipp Lichterbeck: Save me who can. In: Tagesspiegel of August 22, 2012
- ↑ A bote pronto: Lydia Cacho, periodista , Life & Style, November 2006, # 27.
- ↑ Man With Child Porn Charge Extradited. In: cbsnews. dated February 11, 2009
- ↑ ONU aconseja a Cacho dejar México. February 16, 2008
- ^ A b Sandro Benini: Persecuted by pedophiles and human traffickers. In: Tages-Anzeiger of 23 August 2012
- ^ Reporters Without Borders eV: Heroes of Freedom of the Press. Retrieved February 5, 2018 .
- ↑ Palme Prize to authors Saviano and Cacho . Salzburger Nachrichten on January 23, 2012. Accessed on January 27, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cacho, Lydia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cacho Ribeiro, Lydia (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican journalist, feminist and human rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico city |