The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is creating a working group on the precautionary measures it requested from the Brazilian state in the murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous specialist Bruno Araújo Pereira. Assisted by NGOs such as Reporters Without Borders (RSF), it will monitor the investigations into these murders and the adoption of better safety measures for journalists and environmental defenders in the Amazon.
CARACAS, Jun 14 (IPS) - Without the means to receive information about what is happening around them, millions of Latin Americans who live in poor remote rural or impoverished urban areas inhabit veritable news deserts, according to an increasing number of studies conducted by journalistic organizations in the region.
Without the means to receive information about what is happening around them, millions of Latin Americans who live in poor remote rural or impoverished urban areas inhabit veritable news deserts, acco
"A society that does not guarantee free and safe conditions for journalism, for the defence of fundamental rights and for the defence of its Indigenous peoples is condemned, by denying its past, to failure in the construction of its future" - RSF.