II.
Introduction
The Commission on Human Rights publishes and shares its Accomplishment Report (AR) each
year to impart all stakeholders with a review of its overall performance during the period. This
current report is a rendition of such continuing effort. Listed and described here are the highlights
of CHR’s work with reference to the core programs and services and institutional development
and operations for 2022. It assembles into one consolidated account and rolls out what the
institution has attained corresponding to the program key result areas being pursued within its
human rights mandate, including human rights protection, preventing human rights violations,
human rights promotion, human rights policy advisories, organizational development, and
international collaboration and partnerships. The key projects undertaken and the resulting
outputs are also contained and described in this document.
The CHR intends to obtain the widest possible audience to engage such as the general public
whom to inform and instruct with this report. Equally, specific groups including high-level
agencies are the intended readers and end-users i.e., the Philippine Congress, Department of
Budget and Management, Commission on Audit, and other human rights stakeholders at home
and offshore. The effort to cater to as many partners in the country and abroad seeks to facilitate
vibrant local interagency dynamics and complementation as well as international cooperation in
the course of performing each involved party’s counterpart tasks.
III.
Accomplishments on Protection Program/Services
In 2022, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) continued to show purpose and resolve in
actualizing its work as the country’s legitimate and sole NHRI. Its core programs and services as
per usual were the main channels for making accessible steadfast support to all Filipino rightsholders and duty bearers in the Philippines and those outside the country. The protection services
are the first layer of defense to safeguard the rights and entitlements of civilians and citizens under
domestic laws and international instruments and standards. The CHR protection program
functions to aid the State under the current governance to act proactively with respect to human
rights. The objective of protection pursues defending the rights against infringement by accepting
complaints and requests for protection services from affected parties. The protection services
facilitate this along with the other related procedures. In essence, the protection service sees to it
that the State does not disregard and defy the principles and standards. The protection system
safeguards the rights and entitlements from being deprived nor breached by violators. In view of
that, the CHR responded to 5,901 requests for protection services from various sectors during the
period.
The protection service along with all the component programs, rely on reliable data governance
to produce correct and authentic information. Enforcing quality data collection and use has the
end view of integrating, unifying and making congruent the CHR’s monitoring, documentation
and reporting systems.
A.
Request for Protection Services (RPS)
The same with those of the complementary services, the data for the protection outputs, were
broken down into separate smaller components to indicate the specifics such as the volume of
request received and provided for the period. The purpose of disaggregation is to show
information in detail in terms of scope of service, the size of vulnerable groups catered to, their
geographical distribution, and other variables.
RPS by Evaluation of Complaints
and Requests
1684
4217
Legal Assistance
Investigation
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