Fears for safety of Mexican journalist

There is mounting concern about the safety of the award-winning Mexican journalist and human rights activist Lydia Cacho Ribeiro. She has been harassed, threatened and detained by police over the years for her work exposing human trafficking, child pornography and prostitution.

her book, The Demons of Eden,

documents allegations that powerful businessmen had been involved in child prostitution and trafficking.

50 journalists have been murdered since 2000.

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in Juárez, the plague of disappearances of young women that made the city infamous in the 1990s continues unchecked. Whoever abducts them - theories include human traffickers, rogue police and narco gangs - exploits the insecurity and impunity wrought by the drug war.

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Cacho was the 2007 winner of Amnesty International USA's Ginetta Sagan award for defenders of women and children's rights. In the 2008 British press awards, she was highly commended in the international journalist of the year category.