Strikers had called for 'the immediate protection of our indigenist colleagues, Indigenous Peoples and their leaders, organizations and territories,' and demanded the resignation of FUNAI's president, Marcelo Xavier
Staff at FUNAI, the government body responsible for the protection and interests of indigenous Brazilian people, said that working in the Amazon has become dangerous and, in some cases, deadly. In a statement ahead of the action, strikers had called for"the immediate protection of our indigenist colleagues, Indigenous Peoples and their leaders, organizations and territories," and demanded the resignation of FUNAI's president, Marcelo Xavier.
Mauruna, Matis and Canamari indigenous groups searching for missing British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous affairs specialist Bruno Pereira, days before their remains were identified.Phillips, a veteran journalist who reported extensively on Brazil's most marginalized groups and on the destruction that criminal actors are wreaking on the Amazon, had traveled with Pereira to research conservation efforts in the remote Javari Valley.
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