FORA.tv Speaker - Lydia Cacho

Lydia Cacho is a journalist, author and feminist activist against violence. She founded a high-security shelter for battered and sexually exploited women and children.

Cacho is the first woman in Mexican history to have taken to trial an organized crime ring of child pornography, sexual tourism and women's trafficking.

Currently she is a columnist on "El Universal," and a workshop teacher on successful approaches to help trafficking victims. Her new book is Slaves of Power: A World Map of Sex Traffickers.