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They kill environment journalists, don’t they?

August 23, 2010February 20, 2024 / mike shanahan / Leave a comment

Journalists face many threats for uncovering environmental abuses. Some more solidarity from their safer colleagues around the world would put the media spotlight on a growing problem that nations are obliged to tackle under the Rio Declaration they signed in 1992.

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