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Dom Phillips Institute launched to honor British journalist killed in Brazilian Amazon

"The Dom Phillips Institute was launched on June 2, in honor of the British journalist who was murdered in Vale do Javari, in the Brazilian Amazon, in June 2022, together with Indigenous affairs expert Bruno Pereira. Several UN bodies called for investigating the crime and combating illegal actions on Indigenous lands.

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According to Alessandra [Sampaio, Phillips' widow and director of the Institute], the Institute's central purpose will be to develop projects with an educational bias to echo the voices of the Amazon and the wisdom of the people and caregivers, as well as the solutions they have to present."

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