'This is historic': pro-choice campaigners celebrate legal abortion in Colombia – video

Pro-choice supporters danced outside Colombia's constitutional court in downtown Bogota, the capital, after it decriminalised abortion during the first 24 weeks of pregnancy.

Judges ruled five against four to decriminalise the procedure in the South American country after rulings in Mexico and Argentina also lowered barriers to abortion.

Anti-abortion protesters demonstrated against the ruling

• Colombia legalises abortion in move celebrated as historic victory' by campaigners