A/HRC/35/27 property restitution for refugees and displaced persons 17 and the related Handbook on Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons, deliver valuable guidance relating to specific areas of concern. This provides strong foundations for further development, with the objective of operationalizing existing resources and providing technical assistance for their implementation. The Special Rapporteur will collaborate with United Nations bodies and other international organizations, NGOs and national human rights institutions to make progress in this regard. 57. The Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons has sought a strategic collaboration with the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence. Upon the invitation of the latter, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons participated in the OHCHR regional consultations on transitional justice in the Asia-Pacific region, held on 9 and 10 November 2016 in Colombo. She will engage in dialogue with governments undergoing transitional justice and peace processes to promote the inclusion of internally displaced persons and to learn about those governments’ experiences, challenges and practices. She will seek to conduct visits to countries relevant to this thematic focus, and to date has issued visit requests to Colombia and Nepal. She will use her mandate to gather positive practices, guidelines and case studies on the issues and will establish a section of her website dedicated to these issues. Her work on this issue will be ongoing, and she will devote a thematic report to the issue. C. Improving protection of internally displaced children 58. While much attention has been given to internally displaced children by key international humanitarian and development actors, it is evident that their situation and protection remains a considerable concern in displacement situations worldwide. Country visits undertaken by previous mandate holders, and the reports of other organizations, reveal evidence of children facing neglect and human rights violations, including violence and forced recruitment. In too many displacement situations, children are suffering and dying due to the failure of States to respond rapidly and appropriately to their specific needs and due to the lack of capacity and resources for humanitarian actors to fill the protection gaps. The challenges require renewed attention by States and humanitarian partners, with a focus on concrete outcomes, as highlighted at the High Commissioner’s Dialogue on Protection Challenges, in 2016, the theme of which was Children on the Move.18 59. Children make up the majority of those displaced by conflict and frequently bear the brunt of the suffering it causes. The United Nations has emphasized that over 30 million children are displaced by conflict.19 The term “lost generation” often applies, appropriately, to children whose lives are devastated by conflict and displacement. Their futures and opportunities are too often stunted, either by injury, trauma or malnutrition, or by the abuse and violations inflicted by combatants, traffickers or other perpetrators who have the power to abuse them. Their futures are also damaged by their exclusion from education for months or years on end, or by child labour which robs them of their education and childhoods as they support families in poverty. The challenges are particularly acute for orphans, unaccompanied children, children who are living with disability, injury or trauma, and children who head households due to conflict. 60. Under paragraph 16 (d) of Human Rights Council resolution 32/11, the mandate holder is tasked with giving special consideration to the human rights of internally displaced women and children, and of other groups with special needs, such as older persons, persons with disabilities and severely traumatized individuals, and to their particular assistance, protection and development needs. The Special Rapporteur will therefore dedicate a thematic report to the needs and protection issues facing internally displaced children, with a view to bringing renewed attention to their plight and in order to 17 18 19 See https://2001-2009.state.gov/documents/organization/99774.pdf. See www.unhcr.org/high-commissioners-dialogue-on-protection-challenges-2016.html. See https://www.nrc.no/news/2015/june/30-million-children-displaced-/. 15