E/CN.4/2006/73/Add.2 page 15 especially the cultivation of cassava. If they had sufficient land and resources, these women would continue their farming activities. They have developed a project to transform cassava into different types of flour which can be marketed, such as gari, atieke, placali and cocode. Another of their projects is for the hand crafted production of karite butter. 69. The A.TE.TA.S.R. Association has also launched a project to build 150 lodgings for women seeking accommodation, particularly women with children. 70. The Association for the development of women and children of Koulpelogo (ADFEK) also presented projects aimed at sponsoring income-generating activities, such as local crafts, the manufacture of karite butter, ground nut oil, soumbala and local soap. 71. These are simple, small projects to assist the development of income-generating activities. Despite the situation of extreme poverty in which these women find themselves and the traumatic experiences they have been through as a result of the crisis in Côte d’Ivoire, they have preserved the wish to manage their lives and a determination to seize any opportunities which will enable them to rebuilt their future. It appears both necessary and urgent to support these initiatives. 6. The situation of repatriated children 72. Children account for about a third of the people repatriated from Côte d’Ivoire. Just like women, children are often denied their most fundamental rights. 73. Many repatriated children suffer the effects of the disintegration of the family, when at least one of the parents has gone back to Côte d’Ivoire. The children are then left with other members of their families, such as grandparents or uncles, but it sometimes happens that they have no relative at all to look after them. 74. The problems of schooling have already been mentioned. A further point in this connection is the more general problem of the need to adapt or readapt to a different sociocultural situation, which is in most cases unknown, since the repatriated children have never lived in their country of origin. Despite the many expressions of solidarity towards returnees which the Special Rapporteur received from the people she interviewed, there are still remaining tensions between the local communities and returnees, which give rise to many obstacles to their socio-economic integration. IV. CHILD TRAFFICKING 75. Authorities such as the Ministry of the Interior and representatives of civil society interviewed by the Special Rapporteur mentioned child trafficking as one of the major problems affecting Burkina Faso. 76. Burkina Faso is at once a country of origin, of transit and of destination. As a country of destination, it chiefly takes in child workers from south-eastern Mali, who take up domestic service in Burkina Faso.16 As far as child trafficking to other countries is concerned, the main destinations are Côte d’Ivoire and to a lesser extent Benin, Nigeria and Ghana.17

Select target paragraph3