The Applicants say that even though the affected girls were allowed to return to school, many have been unable to do so, owing to the stigma attached to teenage pregnancies and the attendant economic hardship which has forced parents and guardians alike to abandon provision of support for the victims. The Applicants claim that the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the body that monitors the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, has criticised the Policy as discriminatory. The Applicants added that, the Committee’s concluding observations on the third to fifth periodic reports of Sierra Leone, expressed serious concern at what it termed as the “discriminatory policy the Ministry of Education instituted in March 2015 of barring ‘visibly pregnant girls from attending school”. According to the Applicants, the Committee opined that such a policy is in clear violation of Articles 2, 3, 4 and 28 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child that obligate State Parties to a practice of non-discrimination; ensuring the best interests of the child and promoting the right to education of the child. The Committee called on the Respondent State to immediately lift the discriminatory ban on pregnant girls from attending mainstream schools and that pregnant girls and adolescent mothers should be supported and assisted in continuing their education in mainstream schools. The Applicants attached statements of eight (8) witnesses and six (6) Exhibits; Amnesty International Report titled “Shamed and Blamed; Pregnant Girls rights at risk in Sierra Leone, Press Release from the Guardian Newspaper dated 11th May 2015, Press Release from Amnesty International dated 8th November 2016, Press Release from Voice of America News dated 13th April 2015, Certificate of Registration for Women Against Violence and Exploitation in Society (WAVES) and Certificate of Registration for Child Welfare Society, Sierra Leone (CWS-SL)