"The June 2022 murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, a Brazilian expert on the Amazon’s Indigenous, drew the world’s attention to the risk runs by those who shed light on rights violations in the Brazilian Amazon. But press freedom is violated every day in this region, and in a variety of ways that cannot be measured solely by the number of murdered journalists.
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To this end, RSF’s Latin America bureau is launching an “Amazonian Press Freedom Violations Observatory” with the support of the embassy of the Netherlands in Brazil. This project’s goal is to map violations of press freedom and the right to information in the Brazilian Amazon until June 2024.
The data gathered by the Observatory will be published in the form of maps, reports and other kinds of content and will serve to reinforce advocacy and assistance to journalists, information providers and media outlets that are in danger because of their activities in the region."
