Monthly Action Points (MAP) for the Security Council: October 2026

Colombia

Civilians in Colombia, particularly rural, Afro-descendant and Indigenous people, continue to be affected by conflict across different regions, with both state and non-state armed actors having perpetrated femicide, abductions, enforced disappearance, extortion and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Armed and criminal groups also continue to recruit girls, who are subjected to widespread SGBV and exploitation. Colombia remains one of the most dangerous countries in the world for human rights defenders (HRDs) and social leaders: so far in 2026, 108 HRDs and social leaders have been assassinated, with women, Afro-descendant, Indigenous, LGBTIQ and environmental defenders particularly at risk. Former combatants who are signatories to the 2016 peace agreement also remain at risk. Colombia continues to host one of the largest and most protracted internally displaced populations in the world, over 7.2 million people. Migrant women and girls also face increased risks of SGBV and additional barriers to accessing essential services.

The Security Council should:

• Renew in full the mandate of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia (UNVMC) as contained in Resolution 2798 (2025); call for the integration of a gender perspective as a cross-cutting issue and gender expertise within the mission; and call on the UNVMC to prioritize implementation of all outstanding provisions of the 2016 peace agreement, notably gender provisions, the Ethnic Chapter and rural reform, in order to ensure more equitable and effective access to justice for historically marginalized communities. Member States should call for all existing gender adviser and women protection adviser positions to be retained, and commit to funding these positions in the UN Fifth Committee.
• Demand the full, equal, meaningful and safe participation of women, youth, LGBTIQ people, Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendant and rural communities in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of laws concerning armed groups and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration measures, ensuring that these policies respond to the differentiated effects of violence, protect human rights and contribute to security centered on life, care and the construction of territorial peace. 
• Call for all armed actors, including the ELN and FARC dissidents, to protect civilians and immediately end the use of violence, including SGBV. Call on the Government of Colombia to ensure an effective, rights-respecting security and justice policy.
• Demand an end to all forms of intimidation, attacks and reprisals against HRDs, peacebuilders, civil society leaders and peace agreement signatories, and for all perpetrators to be held accountable. Call on the UNVMC to regularly report on the situation of all HRDs to the Security Council. Urge the adequate implementation of the Comprehensive Programme of Safeguards for Women Leaders and Human Rights Defenders and measures to integrate a gender perspective in the work of the National Protection Unit.
• Continue to support the work of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), including the ongoing Macro Case 11 on gender-based, sexual and reproductive violence, as well as follow-up to the recommendations of the Truth Commission’s final report. Support the JEP in the face of attacks that aim to undermine its effectiveness and independence, and call on the Government of Colombia to effectively enforce JEP judgments. 
• Call for all briefings and updates by senior UN officials to integrate gender-sensitive conflict analysis, including the needs of women in relation to violence on the basis of their identities and against social leaders and former combatants.
• Call for the integration of robust environmental protection and land stewardship into policy and legal frameworks, recognizing that safeguarding natural resources and defending the ecosystems of one of the world’s most biodiverse nations is inseparable from protecting human rights, securing rural livelihoods and addressing the root causes of conflict. 

Libya

Women continue to be marginalized from political processes in Libya; for example, no women are included in the 4+4 Committee convened by the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), and women comprise only 16.5% of the House of Representatives. Politically active women in Libya, including women human rights defenders (WHRDs), journalists, peacebuilders, political candidates and activists, are frequently targeted due to their work, through online harassment, hate campaigns and threats of violence, and through intimidation, arrests, disappearances, killings, arbitrary detention and torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, perpetrated with impunity by both state and non-state actors. Civic space continues to be restricted by repressive laws and decrees, including restrictions on using the word “gender,” and through intimidation and reprisals. Libyan personal status, family and nationality laws also discriminate against women on issues such as marriage, divorce and conferring nationality to children. These actions both prevent women’s groups from carrying out their work, including in humanitarian contexts, and deny women’s fundamental rights to full, equal, meaningful and safe participation in public and political life.

Refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants in Libya, including women and girls, are routinely subjected to torture and other ill-treatment, including sexual violence, trafficking and exploitation, while also facing significant barriers in accessing protection and services including healthcare, and in accessing justice for violations.

The Security Council should:

• Renew in full the mandate of UNSMIL as contained in Resolution 2796 (2025). Safeguard and maintain all provisions related to women, peace and security (WPS), including: urging Libyan authorities to ensure the full, equal, meaningful and safe participation of women at all levels, including in democratic transition and reconciliation efforts; emphasizing the need to protect women, women’s rights organizations and women peacebuilders from intimidation, threats, reprisals and attacks; calling for an end to impunity for SGBV; and urging all parties to implement relevant WPS resolutions.Request that UNSMIL prioritize all activities related to the protection and promotion of women’s rights, including monitoring and reporting on reprisals against WHRDs and politically active women, and providing necessary support to those at risk. Member States should call for all existing gender adviser and women protection adviser positions to be retained, and commit to funding these positions in the UN Fifth Committee. 
• Demand women’s full, equal, meaningful and safe participation in formal, substantive and specific roles at every level of the peace process and implementation of the political roadmap, recalling the 30% quota established by the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum. The Security Council, UN and Member States must not endorse, facilitate, participate in or otherwise support any process where women are excluded.
• Call on UNSMIL and the Libyan authorities to integrate a gender perspective into security sector reform, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration efforts and ceasefire monitoring arrangements. In addition, call for ceasefire monitoring arrangements to meaningfully include women monitors, address conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) and regularly and meaningfully consult with women-led and women’s rights organizations.
• Call on the Libyan authorities to remove the country’s reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and align its personal status, family and nationality laws with international standards.

Women Peace and Security

In the forthcoming open debate on women, peace and security, Security Council members must commit to:

• Upholding the centrality of gender equality and the full scope of human rights of diverse women and girls in peace and security across the entirety of the Council’s work, without exception. 
• Protecting civilians and ensuring safe and legal pathways to escape violence and persecution as mandated by the Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees.
• Ensuring the full, equal, meaningful and safe participation of diverse women in all stages of peace processes, especially those under the Security Council’s purview, with the target of 50%; and integrating measurable targets for women’s participation in all Security Council outcome documents, including the mandates of peace operations.
• Ensuring a safe and enabling environment in which women and LGBTIQ HRDs, humanitarians, peacebuilders, and civil society are protected and supported, including by eliminating any restrictions to their work; consistently implementing a zero-tolerance approach to any form of attack, intimidation, retaliation or reprisal against diverse women for their political participation, human rights and humanitarian work, peacebuilding activities or cooperation with the UN; and providing direct, sustainable and flexible funding to local women-led, women’s rights and LGBTIQ organizations.
• Implementing a rights-based and survivor-centered approach to prevention of and response to all forms of SGBV; ensuring access to quality, accessible and non-discriminatory health care, including comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care, and providing psychosocial support, legal services, access to justice, reparations and livelihood support. Reparations mechanisms should provide guarantees of non-repetition by addressing underlying forms of gender discrimination, exclude all amnesties for CRSV and facilitate women’s full, equal, meaningful and safe participation in peace processes and post-conflict society building.
• Ensuring principled and non-discriminatory humanitarian access to all people in need and supporting the participation and leadership of women, girls and women’s rights organizations in the design and implementation of all humanitarian responses. 
• Ensuring accountability for all violations of human rights and international law, including abuses targeting diverse women and girls and, and actively supporting efforts to strengthen gender justice under international law, through both application of existing instruments and through strengthening legal frameworks, including the Draft Articles on Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity.
• Requesting UN officials to integrate gender analysis and WPS issues in all country-specific briefings to the Council, as per Resolution 2122 (2013); and ensuring the direct and regular participation of independent women civil society briefers in Council meetings.