organizations (CSOs) such as Likhaan Center for Reproductive Health Rights and other CSOs focusing on Reproductive Health Rights. The objectives of the National Inquiry on Reproductive Health included:  Examine the effectiveness and implementation of laws (MCW and the RH Law), and related issuances by the DOH on Reproductive Health;  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;  To focus on the denial of and barriers to reproductive health services as experienced by the most vulnerable and marginalized, 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;  To document the barriers and problems experienced by service providers, both state and non-state, in providing reproductive health services, particularly to those most vulnerable and marginalized;  To provide an analysis and to report on women’s access to reproductive health in the light of the State’s obligations under CEDAW and the provisions of the MCW and the RH Law;  To relate women’s right to reproductive health to other rights under CEDAW and to highlight the intersectionality of women’s discrimination through the accounts provided by the written submissions, the fact finding, and the public hearings;  To provide concrete recommendations to the State and the concerned agencies to address individual and systemic/structural barriers to women’s access to reproductive health services; 29

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