Journalist Lydia Cacho, a human rights defender based in Cancún, south-eastern Mexico, has been threatened with death.

Lydia Cacho, a journalist and human rights defender, who is based in Cancún, Quintana Roo state, southern east Mexico, has received new death threats by email and telephone. There are serious fears over her safety and security.

Since 12 May 2009, an armed man has been photographing and keeping watch on Lydia Cacho Ribeiro’s home and car in Cancún, Quintana Roo state. Lydia Cacho is a well-known human rights activist and journalist who has suffered harassment, threats and arbitrary detention for her work exposing a child...

A car carrying human rights defender Lydia Cachod was reportedly tampered with on 7 May in an attempt to cause a fatal accident, in Mexico City. She was not hurt, but Amnesty International believes her life is in danger: her work as a journalist has led to repeated harassment and threats.

At AIUSA’s 2007 Annual General Meeting a number of special guests, including former prisoner of conscience Saad Ibrahim, an internationally respected advocate of democracy and intellectual freedom in Egypt, and Jennifer Latheef, a photojournalist and an opposition political activist in the...

Fears for the safety of Lydia Cacho Ribeiro have increased, after a Mexican national newspaper published the transcripts of telephone conversations allegedly involving state authorities, including the Governor of Puebla, and important businessmen, apparently plotting to silence her through judicial...

On 16 December Lydia Cacho Ribeiro, President of the Centro Integral de Atención a las Mujeres (CIAM), Women’s Assistance Centre, and human rights defender, was arrested by police in Cancun and taken 1,500 kilometres to Puebla. She was detained for 30 hours on charges of defamation before...

On 19 October 2001, the human rights defender Digna Ochoa was killed in her offices in Mexico City. The heinous crime shocked Mexican society and the international community. Digna was one of the most emblematic leaders in the defence of human rights in Mexico, in a particularly complex context....

The jury of the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (MEA) has announced the nominations for the 2007 Award. The MEA, created in 1993, is granted annually to an individual or an organization who has displayed exceptional courage in combating human rights violations. This year’s...

Lydia Cacho Ribeiro, president of the organization Centro Integral de Atención a las Mujeres (CIAM), Women’s Assistance Centre, has recently received further threats as a result of her work to protect the rights of women and girls. Amnesty International is concerned for her safety as well as...

Lydia Cacho Ribeiro, president of the organization Centro Integral de Atención a las Mujeres (CIAM), Women’s Assistance Centre, and staff at three CIAM shelters around Mexico, have received a number of death threats as a result of their work to protect the rights of women and girls. CIAM...