"The ACIE and its board of directors call on the competent authorities to intensify the search in order to find the British journalist as soon as possible," a statement on behalf of its president Edmar Figueiredo and its board of directors said.
A British journalist has gone missing in Brazil, according to an association of foreign correspondents in the country, which is calling for authorities to step up the search.
Charlotte Alice Peet, 32, told a friend she was in Sao Paulo on 8 February but was planning to go to Rio de Janeiro before she disappeared.
She is said to have contacted a friend in Rio on WhatsApp saying she needed a place to stay but was told the friend could not host her.
The ACIE, the association of foreign press correspondents in Brazil, has issued a statement expressing concern about her disappearance, and to express sympathy for her family and friends.
