words on the Plaintiffs is therefore in violation of Plaintiffs rights as provided under Article 5 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. From the totality of evidence offered, it seems that the whole hug of the operation was targeted against women. This systematic sting operation directed against only the female gender furnishes evidence of discrimination. There is an obligation placed on State Parties to Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) to adopt laws, administrative and Policy measures to prevent gender based discrimination. Prostitution is claimed to be a crime in the laws of the Defendant. However, it takes two persons to engage in such criminal activity. There is no law that suggest that when women are seen on the streets at midnight or anytime thereafter, they are necessarily idle persons or prostitutes. If it were so, it ought to apply to all persons irrespective of sex. Whether from the totality of facts adduced the Defendant is in breach of its obligation as alleged The Defendant in this case did not furnish this Court with any evidence to prove the allegation of prostitution and they have not shown that the Plaintiffs were arrested flagrantly committing the offence as a justification for the arrest. Having arbitrarily arrested, detained and harassed the Plaintiffs, the officials have violated the rights of the Plaintiffs’ under Articles 5 and 6 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and Article 9(1) of the ICCPR. 38