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Constance Malleret in Rio de Janeiro

Slain Amazon activist Bruno Pereira’s son fighting rare form of cancer

People hold signs with the portraits of two men with the words 'Justica para Dom & Bruno'
Activists commemorate the one-year anniversary of the murders of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 5 June 2023. Photograph: Bruna Prado/AP

Leading artists, Indigenous activists and politicians across Brazil are urging people to contribute to a fund to help the son of the slain Amazon activist Bruno Pereira, who has been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.

Pedro Pereira, five, the son of anthropologist Beatriz Matos and Bruno Pereira – who was ambushed and killed in the western Amazon in June 2022 alongside the British journalist Dom Phillips – was diagnosed with stage four neuroblastoma last year.

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