Brazil - Call for swift adoption of effective measures to protect journalists

Reporters without borders

With just one month to go to the start of the Football World Cup in Brazil, Reporters Without Borders reminds the Brazilian authorities of the urgent need to create a mechanism for protecting journalists. A working group set up by the justice ministry in 2012 to identify how to extend the existing human rights protection mechanism to journalists issued its recommendations in March, a month after Bandeirantes TV cameraman Santiago Ilídio Andrade died from injuries received during a (...)

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