psychological study which reported that segregated education produced emotional and psychological harm in Roma children, both in terms of selfesteem and development of their identity. In September 2002 a Municipal Court dismissed their complaint after finding that the reason why most Roma pupils were placed in separate classes was that they needed extra tuition in Croatian and that the applicants had failed to substantiate their allegations concerning racial discrimination and the reduced curriculum. That decision was upheld on appeal. The Applicants then brought the matter before the European Court of Human rights, After considering the case, the Court held by a majority of Judges that despite the very positive actions taken by the Respondent State following the period in question, the facts of the applicants’ case nevertheless indicated that: “their schooling arrangements were not sufficiently attended by safeguards that would ensure that, in the exercise of its margin of appreciation in the education sphere, the State had had sufficient regard to their special needs as members of a disadvantaged group”. As a result, curriculum transfer to children in the Applicant had been placed in separate classes where an adapted was followed, without clear or transparent criteria as regards their mixed classes. The Court therefore held that placement of Roma Roma-only classes owing to their allegedly poor command of the Croatian language is discriminatory and a violation of their right. It is the Responsibility of the State of Sierra Leone to ensure that girls attend school just as their male counterpart. It is also equally its obligation to ensure that they are afforded equal opportunities as anyone else and not to be discriminated against on the basis of their status (pregnancy) by establishing 27