'Journalists reporting on Indigenous issues are doing critical work, and must be able to do so without fearing for their safety,' says pressfreedom's Carlos Martínez de la Serna.
"Journalists reporting on Indigenous issues are doing critical work, and must be able to do so without fearing for their safety," asserted one advocate.Human rights and press freedom defenders on Monday called on the Brazilian government to do everything possible to find an Indigenous activist and a British journalist after the pair went missing in a remote area of the Amazon rainforest just days after receiving threats.
Pereira is a veteran Indigenous rights protector who previously worked for the National Indian Foundation , a federal agency. Phillips has on the threats posed by illegal miners and cattle ranchers to uncontacted Indigenous peoples in the Javari Valley."we are making the state available to support the searches and investigations into the disappearance" of Pereira and Phillips."We're sending agents to the scene and we'll do what we can to find them.
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