Chico Mendes
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Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, better known as Chico Mendes, was a Brazilian rubber tapper, trade union leader, and environmentalist who fought to preserve the Amazon rainforest and advocated for the human rights of Brazilian peasants and Indigenous people. He was assassinated by a hired killer on 22 December 1988.
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Eduardo CamposAlso won Livro dos Heróis e Heroínas da Pátria
Sadako OgataAlso won honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Anita GaribaldiAlso won Livro dos Heróis e Heroínas da Pátria
Ralph M. SteinmanAlso won honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Hélder CâmaraAlso won Livro dos Heróis e Heroínas da Pátria
Shulamit AloniAlso won honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit BrusselAbout this person
Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, better known as Chico Mendes, was a Brazilian rubber tapper, trade union leader, and environmentalist who fought to preserve the Amazon rainforest and advocated for the human rights of Brazilian peasants and Indigenous people. He was assassinated by a hired killer on 22 December 1988. The Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation, a body under the jurisdiction of the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment, is named in his honour.
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