Human rights — Treaties — Right to education — Right to equality and non-discrimination — Ban in Sierra Leone preventing pregnant girls from accessing mainstream schools — Whether violating international human rights obligations applicable to Sierra Leone — African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, 1981 — African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, 1990 — Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, 2003 — United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s Convention Against Discrimination in Education, 1960 — United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989 — Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, 1979 — International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1966 — Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 — Revised Treaty of the Economic Community of West African States, 1993

International tribunals — Jurisdiction — Locus standi — Whether non-governmental organization having capacity to sue on behalf of pregnant adolescent schoolgirls — Public interest — Whether criteria for public interest litigation met — Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States

State responsibility — Attribution — Acts of public officials — Minister of Education in Sierra Leone issuing statement — Statement preventing pregnant girls from accessing mainstream schools — Whether statement attributable to Sierra Leone — Whether violating Sierra Leone’s international legal obligations