Lydia Cacho Ribeiro Wins the Guillermo Cano Prize for Press Freedom
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Wednesday April 16, 2008 12:52
by C Murray
Journalist honoured for Her work in Mexico.
The 2008 Guillermo Cano award for Journalism is being awarded on May 3rd to Lydia Cacho
from Cancun , In Mexico.
The award Names her as an International Press Freedom Writer and will be awarded by UNESCO.
Lydia has endured defamation, sabotage, car-bomb attack, police harassment and persecution
for writing on corruption and child pornography in official Mexico.
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/85907
http://libertadlatina.org
The award will be presented in Mapout, Mozambique in May.
Information from:
http://www.ifex.org
http://www.ipwwc.org
Earlier this year on http://www.indymedia.ie/article/85907 , her name had joined a growing list of
women writers under threat, which included women from Iran, China, Tibet, the Ukraine and
Ethiopia.
All the cases are ongoing and monitored by the Women's Unions, Human Right's Watch and Amnesty.
That article contains links and biographies of the Women.
Lydia Cacho's Independent publications include:
'The Devils of Eden'
'Memorias de una Infamia'
She works as a freelance for 'La voz de la Caribe', (a Local paper), on corruption in Politics.
I can join my colleagues in the PEN Women Writer's Committee in extending Congragulations to Her.
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/86426
http://www.ipwwc.org
