C. Tanggol Karapatan This form of service emphasizes the importance of lawyers and the crucial tasks they perform such as counselling the clients and acting as their representatives in all the pertinent platforms of the judicial system. With the lawyers performing their roles, the legal involvement and mediation of CHR as an NHRI constitutes a major groundwork for all of its functions. The protection and defense of the rights of the people in society rest in the legal practitioners’ hands. Furthermore, while availing legal assistance is crucial, it is equally prohibitive due to the high costs in many aspects of the procedures especially for the victims of human rights violations. This is primarily the reason Tanggol Karapatan is opening itself as an affordable and more practical alternative. • E –Lawyering Under the Tanggol Karapatan as a mechanism, the E-Lawyering (electronic lawyering or lawyers extending services online) offers a set up that incorporates the digital technology to reach out to complainants who are unable to come in person to the legal offices for one reason or another. The protection services introduced this form of legal aid as an alternative especially during the pandemic period. It proved helpful when the local government units required social distancing as part of the safety protocol and when further ensuing restrictions discouraged physical access to legal help. Through on-stream consultations, free legal assistance was obtained and aiding victims was saved from interruption. There were 1,090 total number of clients served through Elawyering from January to December of the year. D. Traditional Legal Assistance and/or Legal Counselling Traditional legal assistance and/or counselling combine with other forms of assistance extended by the CHR to aid the victims of human rights abuses. The legal assistance provided includes a set of services including informing, advising and representation in court. When informing and/or counselling the victims and their families, the legal specialists provided help by recommending opinion, offering technical as well as practical information, and at most, proffering themselves as CHR intermediary, to represent the prospective case in a court of law. The traditional legal assistance supplied by the CHR is usually carried out in a specified set-up, i.e., face-to-face; in a physical environment (specifically in CHR offices); in the homes of the victims; or a determined place mutually agreed upon by the parties concerned. Served with official legal and counselling assistance were 4,056 persons in which 3,301 or 81.4% were experiencing various thematic issues apart from the usual types of cases. E. Legal Clinic Caravan With the intention to bring help to the people wherever they are, the Legal Clinic Caravan (LCC) has been visiting local communities around the country and conducting on-theground consultations. The remotest and poor areas lacking in government agency services have been its initial destinations. The concept of the LCC takes inspiration from the developmental legal aid model characterized by pro-bono services, and focuses on the poor and marginalized sectors. Through the LCC, sustaining developmental and legal assistance and counselling is practiced and cultivated. Measures that increase awareness of human rights, build capacities, make available opportunities for training on basic human rights, raise public knowledge on the roles, mandate, and services of CHR, and other relevant human rights laws and 14