17(1) of the ACHPR, Articles 1, 3, 4, 11 and 24 of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child amongst others. The rights provided for and guaranteed under those provisions are clearly human rights of which the court has in a plethora of cases maintained its competence to adjudicate upon. See BAKARRY SARRE & 28 ORS v. MALI (supra). Secondly as regards access to the Court or who can be a party before the Court, Article 10(d) is clear as to individual victims for violations of human rights. The Court has also in a plethora of cases allowed legally recognised NGOs to bring action on behalf of victims of human rights violations. See the cases of SERAP v. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA & ANOR Suit No. ECW/CCJ/APP/12/07, MEDIA FOUNDATION FOR WEST AFRICA v. REPUBLIC OF THE GAMBIA Suit No. ECW/CCI/APP/15/1. The application before this Court is brought by the Applicant, Women against Violence and Exploitation in Society (WAVES), a non-governmental organisation, on behalf of pregnant adolescent school girls in Sierra Leone. The Applicant is a legally recognised Non-Governmental Organisation and is maintaining this action on behalfof a section of the community in Sierra Leone whose right to education the Applicant believes is being violated; it is therefore maintaining this action in the public interest. The Respondent, on the other hand is saying that the actual victims of the alleged violation have not been joined as parties to the suit and therefore contends that the Applicant lacks sufficient interest to litigate this action. In considering the facts of the application and underscoring the primacy of human rights, the Court is obligated to interrogate the aspect of public interest B