The International Office for Human Rights Action on Colombia

Day: 10 June 2026

Colombia Adopts the National Action Plan on Human Rights for 2026–2036

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Decreto 0585 de 2026

The Colombian Government has adopted the 2026–2036 National Action Plan on Human Rights, a roadmap designed to guide State action over the next decade to strengthen the promotion, protection and fulfilment of human rights. The Plan implements a commitment under the 2016 Peace Agreement and is integrated into the National Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law System.

The decree establishes a cross-cutting human rights-based approach and incorporates differential and intersectional perspectives, including gender, children and adolescents, sexual orientation and gender identity, ethnic peoples, peasants, persons with disabilities, victims of the armed conflict, rural territorial approaches and human security. It also provides for coordination mechanisms among public institutions and creates spaces for civil society participation in the implementation and monitoring of the Plan.

The Plan is structured around six major strategic components: overcoming poverty, inequality and discrimination; addressing land, territory and the climate crisis; strengthening democratic participation and fundamental freedoms; promoting a human rights culture and access to technology; advancing peacebuilding and reconciliation; and strengthening justice while combating impunity and corruption. Each component is further developed through specific objectives, strategic lines of action and concrete measures, to be implemented through a technical annex, monitoring mechanisms, indicators and financing arrangements.

Given its scope and significance for Colombia’s human rights public policy over the next decade, we encourage you to consult the full text of the decree to explore its objectives, implementation mechanisms and institutional commitments in greater detail.

Our solidarity is universal.

We are deeply concerned about all victims of armed conflict, repression and violence around the world — from Sudan to Syria, including the persecution of the Rohingya and so many other crises that often receive less international attention than they deserve. Each of these situations calls for solidarity, remembrance, justice and action.

However, we have decided to specifically highlight the message ‘Stop Genocide in Palestine’ because what is happening in Palestine represents not only a human tragedy of enormous magnitude, but also a direct challenge to the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law and to the rules-based international system itself. The indifference and complicity of much of the international community in the face of the apartheid regime imposed by the Israeli government on the Palestinian people represent one of the greatest moral and political contradictions of our time.

The persistent violation of essential norms — such as the protection of the civilian population, the prohibition of collective punishment and respect for proportionality in the use of force — not only has devastating consequences for the Palestinian population, but also erodes the global mechanisms designed to limit the power of states and prevent abuses.

When these rules are repeatedly breached without any effective consequences, the framework that protects all populations in conflict situations, anywhere in the world, is weakened. Therefore, speaking out in this case does not mean ignoring other forms of suffering, but rather emphasising the urgency of defending an international order which, if it collapses, leaves everyone in a more vulnerable position.

Drawing attention to this situation is, therefore, an act consistent with the universal values we uphold: the protection of life, human dignity and respect for international law, without exception.

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