The Rio Olympics are a "huge missed opportunity" to improve the lives of the country's poorest, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (Cafod) has said.

With all eyes on Brazil this summer for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Cafod said that the plight of Brazil’s indigenous peoples and the Amazon should be centre stage.

Esther Gillingham, Cafod’s Brazil programme officer, said: “Indigenous peoples are being murdered, criminalised, threatened, evicted from their land, and their rights to health and education are systematically violated.