Committee in the List of Issues Prior to Reporting (LOIPR) and it will highlight access to reproductive health particularly of marginalized groups. For the former, the Commission will be conducting consultations, for the latter, the Commission will be conducting a national inquiry. A national inquiry process is a strategy adopted by National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) whereby a large number of individual complaints can be dealt with in a proactive and cost effective way1. A national inquiry is an effective strategy in addressing systemic violations of human rights – based on evidence from individual cases, but also embracing an examination of the laws, policies, and programs (or lack of them) which have given rise to violations in question. Objectives: The National Inquiry on Reproductive Health and Reproductive Rights, through written submissions, fact finding missions and public hearings, aims to: 1. Examine the effectiveness and implementation of laws (MCW and the RPRH Law), and related issuances by the DOH on Reproductive Health; 2. Document individual and/or systemic accounts of acts or omissions, structures, policies or practices which result to denial of access to reproductive health services or which hinder and serve as barriers in accessing reproductive health services; 3. To focus on the denial of and barriers to reproductive health services as experienced by the most vulnerable and marginalised, particularly the poorest of the poor, rural women, indigenous women, women with disabilities, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transwomen, women in the informal economy, elderly women, girl children and women who are internally displaced and/or those who are not beneficiaries of the Department of Health’s 2015 Family Planning Funds; 1 Asia Pacific Forum. National Human Rights Institutions and National Inquiries. 25