A/HRC/31/19 IV. Working with United Nations human rights mechanisms 46. The Office of the Special Representative has continued to work closely with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights with a view to mainstreaming children and armed conflict issues and contributing to the monitoring and reporting of grave violations against children, both in mission and non-mission settings. 47. The Office of the Special Representative contributed to the work of the human rights mechanisms by submitting information for the universal periodic review process of the Human Rights Council. Those submissions and interactions with the human rights mechanisms reinforced common advocacy efforts and actions for the promotion and greater protection of the rights of children in situations of armed conflict. For instance, the Special Representative was pleased to see that the report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review on Myanmar to be made available in late 2015 will include recommendations on the adoption of measures to end and prevent the recruitment and participation of children in military activities, as well as on the implementation of policies to ensure full protection of civilians, particularly children, in zones of armed conflict. 48. The Special Representative was also pleased to see that concerns relating to children affected by armed conflict were considered and often reflected in the concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on the reports of Colombia (CRC/C/COL/CO/4-5) and Iraq (CRC/C/IRQ/CO/2-4). The Special Representative will continue to use these observations for advocacy purposes with the Member States concerned, urging the States parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child to implement the recommendations of the Committee. She invites the Committee to consider issuing regular substantive statements on issues relating to children and armed conflict. Moreover, she calls upon the Committee to include references to meeting the specific needs of children in conflict and post-conflict settings in its general comment No. 19 on public spending and the rights of the child (to be published in 2016). 49. References and recommendations relating to children and armed conflict by United Nations human rights mechanisms are welcomed as they are important advocacy tools in the work of the Special Representative.4 The Human Rights Council and the Committee against Torture are encouraged to continue to include language on the protection of children affected by armed conflict. 50. With regard to the special procedure mandate holders of the Human Rights Council, the Special Representative welcomes the Special Rapporteurs’ efforts to highlight issues related to children and armed conflict in their respective thematic or country-specific reports and recommendations and encourages the mandate holders to continue to pay due attention to the challenges that compromise the rights, development and well-being of children in situations of conflict. 51. As a member of the Human Rights up Front initiative, the Office of the Special Representative continued to contribute to the development of a United Nations information management system on human rights violations, as well as to the design of a new human 4 During the period under review, a number of Human Rights Council resolutions included such references, including resolutions 29/16 on the grave and deteriorating human rights and humanitarian situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, 29/25 on ensuring accountability and justice for all violations of international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, 30/7 on human rights in the administration of justice, including juvenile justice, 30/19 on capacity-building in the field of human rights in the Central African Republic, 30/20 on assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights and 30/26 on technical assistance and capacity-building for human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 13