A police officer asks for documents at a checkpoint on April 21, 2020 in Bogota, Colombia. (Guillermo Legaria/Getty Images) Gender-based lockdown rules in Bogotá, Colombia, will be lifted after they fuelled a wave of violence against transgender people living in the city. Bogotá’s mayor, Claudia Lopez, said in a virtual press conference on Friday (May
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Inter-American Court of Human Rights hears cases of human rights abuses in Latin America (Twitter/@CorteIDH) The top human rights court in the Americas has found Peru responsible for the rape and torture of a trans woman while in police custody. In 2008, Azul Rojas Marín was stripped, hit and raped with a truncheon by three