Discussion and Analysis Whether the 2nd Claimant, the Registered Trustees of Domestic and Vulnerable Workers Association (DOVWA): has sufficient locus standi in the matter; and can maintain an action or invoke representative standing on behalf of domestic workers 29. The 2nd Claimant stated that it is: - a non-governmental organisation duly registered as a trust and responds to labour related issues of domestic and vulnerable workers in Malawi. 30. Section 15(2) of the Constitution provides that: - Any person or group of persons, natural or legal, with sufficient interest in the promotion, protection and enforcement of rights under this Chapter shall be entitled to the assistance of the courts, the Ombudsman, the Human Rights Commission and other organs of the Government to ensure the promotion, protection and enforcement of those rights and the redress of any grievances in respect of those rights. 31. From this provision it goes without saying that persons who establish a sufficient interest in the protection and promotion of rights can enforce and protect rights under the Constitution. However, to move the Court, such person or persons must have “sufficient interest” in the matter they so bring to the Court. We wish to agree with the decision in The Registered Trustees of the Women & Law (Malawi) Research & Education Trust v The Attorney General and others [2014] MLR 363 (HC) that the existing authorities on the Page 13 of 45

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