March 2025
At the headquarters of the Asociación de la Prensa de Málaga, investigative journalist Lydia Cacho was formally presented with the Premio Periodistas por la Igualdad 2025 — the Journalists for Equality Prize — in a ceremony held just days before International Women’s Day on 8 March.
The award was presented by Teresa Santos, coordinator of the APM’s Assembly of Women Journalists, in recognition of Cacho’s decades of courageous work documenting gender-based violence and defending the rights of the most vulnerable. It was a fitting tribute to a journalist whose commitment to equality has come at enormous personal cost.
When asked how she manages to face the current global climate — one that, in many parts of the world, feels hostile to the progress that journalists like her have fought to achieve — Cacho answered with the resolve that has come to define her: “Optimism… We’ll keep going. We can’t go back, and we can’t give up, so we have to go on.”
It is a sentiment that resonates far beyond any single prize ceremony.
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