reproductive health and rights as well as on ending child marriages, as
this increased community knowledge on family planning and
contraceptives will support efforts to address the high rate of teenage
pregnancies.
vi. Order the Respondent State to develop strategies and nationwide
campaigns to enable teenage mothers to attend school. This may range
from providing subsidies to enable girls with children to attend school, to
developing alternative schooling offering the same quality and standard
of education as offered in mainstream schools as well as developing and
implementing relevant re-entry policies for girls who have given birth.
vii. Order the Respondent State to put in place constitutional, legislative and
administrative measures to guarantee the right to education, including
its enforceability domestically, as well as a right to remedies, including
reparations, and eradicate discriminatory laws and policies that impede
the right to education within six (6) months.
viii. Order the Respondent State to report to the Court within a period of six
(6) months from the date of judgment on the implementation of this
judgment and consequential orders.
ix. Order the Respondent State to publish the judgment in this matter on
the official website of its judiciary and of the Ministry responsible for legal
affairs, within two (2) months from date of notification of the decision.
x.
Declare violations of other human rights which were not specifically
mentioned by the Applicants in this Application.
xi. Issue any other remedy and/or relief that the Court will deem necessary
to grant.
xii. Order the Respondent State to pay the Applicants’ costs.
20. In its Response, with regard to the Court’s jurisdiction and admissibility of
the Application, the Respondent State prays the Court to order as follows:
i.
That the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights is not vested with
jurisdiction to adjudicate the Application.
ii.
The Application has not met the admissibility requirements provided by
Article 56 of the Charter and Rule 50 of the Rules.
iii. The Application be declared inadmissible.
iv. That the Application be dismissed.
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