A/HRC/19/72 Monitoring of borders and areas of return by teams from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees made it possible to record the spontaneous return, in midOctober 2011, of some 130,000 refugees from camps and border areas. 65. According to information provided by humanitarian actors, an estimated US$ 291,989,445 is needed to help finance humanitarian response and emergency preparedness efforts. Although donors rapidly provided funding at the start of the humanitarian crisis, the humanitarian emergency action plan is not sufficiently financed. As of November 2011, humanitarian partners had access to only 34 per cent of the required funds, or US$ 100,543,115. This lack of resources has particularly affected the humanitarian response in the Moyen Cavally region, even though the area between Guiglo and the Liberian border near Toulepleu and Zouan-Hounien was declared an emergency zone in April. 66. The independent expert is concerned that humanitarian actors are not sufficiently present on the spot to facilitate the return of thousands of internally displaced persons and refugees to these same areas and to assist and protect the most vulnerable, contribute to the renovation of thousands of destroyed houses and restore basic social services. A humanitarian response in this region could prevent new intercommunity tensions. C. Women and children 67. Women and children have suffered greatly from the post-election crisis in Côte d’Ivoire. The independent expert held a meeting with women’s representatives who warned of a resurgence of sexual and physical violence against women, especially in the west; there had been 71 alleged cases of rape and 215 cases of physical violence since the end of the post-election crisis. The perpetrators are sometimes men in uniform. The independent expert also received information about eight rapes, some involving girls between the ages of 5 and 14, that were committed in Abidjan, Bouaké, Bondoukou, Issia (40 km from Daloa) and San-Pédro. In Bouaké, the victim was found dead. After these acts, four people were supposedly arrested. The other presumed perpetrators escaped. During his visit to Bouaké, the independent expert was informed about 42 cases of female genital mutilation performed in October 2011 in Kotolo, a village in the commune of Dabakala, including 1 in which a 4-year-old girl died. 68. Despite campaigns by chocolate manufacturers, child labour on the country’s cocoa plantations remains a concern. Many children still perform dangerous tasks such as using machetes, spraying pesticides and handling heavy loads. This situation is a violation of children’s basic rights. It is important for the Government to recognize the right of the child to be protected from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child’s education, or to be harmful to the child’s health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development. 69. The Government has examined the issue and steps have been taken to address the problem of child labour in the cocoa sector. In fact, at the extraordinary Council of Ministers session of 3 November 2011, the President signed two decrees establishing, respectively, national and inter-ministerial monitoring committees on child trafficking, exploitation and labour. D. Prisons 70. The independent expert visited the prisons of Korhogo, Odienné, Boundiali and Katiola, the Abidjan Detention and Correction Centre and the Abidjan military prison, where individuals arrested in connection with the post-election violence are being held. Conditions of detention for the prisoners visited were generally satisfactory. No cases of GE.12-10060 13