By Letícia Duarte As it is often the case with environmental agreements, the recent joint declaration signed by the eight countries to safeguard the Amazon rainforest is full of good intentions. But the absence of concrete goals against deforestation and climate change has upset environmentalists and local communities, who worry that these words may not
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Report for the World reached a new milestone, as we held our first ever in-person gathering in São Paulo, Brazil last week, bringing together our Latin American corps members and newsroom partners for a two-day investigative journalism workshop. The training sessions were supported by journalismfund.eu Participating corps members and editors from Brazil, Mexico and Peru
The murders of the British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira during a reporting trip in the Brazilian Amazon have once again exposed the risks for those investigating environmental issues and Indigenous communities. Phillips and Pereira were murdered last month in the Javari Valley, close to Brazil’s border with Peru and Colombia,