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The Struggle for Human Rights in Contemporary Mexico: A Lecture by Lydia Cacho

Admission is free.

Lydia Cacho is a Mexican journalist, feminist and human-rights activist who has fought extensively against child abuse, violence against women and political corruption and impunity. Among her journalistic achievements are a series of articles and books exposing Mexican rings of child pornography and prostitution, and, more recently, writings on the unsolved murders of women in Ciudad Juárez that condemn the failure of the Mexican government and society in general to stop the killings. She has received several awards for her courage and social and political efforts, including the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Courage Award, the Amnesty International Ginetta Sagan Award for Women’s and Children’s Rights and the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.

Cacho will talk about her experience of being a journalist in Mexico and her struggle for freedom of expression in a country where the media is tightly controlled by political parties and where human rights, freedom and democracy continue to be fragile.

Organized by María-Elena Martínez (History and American Studies and Ethnicity) and Carol Wise (International Relations).

For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu

Location: Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library (DML) - Friends Lecture Hall, Room 240

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Daria Yudacufski