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UN: 70pc of environment journalists report attacks, threats, pressure

When people staged demonstrations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 26, 2022, to call for justice for the murder of Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and the British journalist Dom Phillips while on a reporting mission in the Amazon rainforest. [AFP]

Seventy percent of environmental journalists from 129 countries, polled in March, reported experiencing attacks, threats or pressure related to their job, UNESCO said Thursday.

Of those, two in five subsequently experienced physical violence, it said in a report released on World Press Freedom Day. More than 900 reporters were questioned for the poll.

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