For this report, the Commission conducted a National Inquiry on Reproductive Health Rights, focusing on the issues as identified by the CEDAW Committee in the List of Issues (LOI), and with a special focus on reproductive health rights particularly of marginalized groups. The activity was with funding support from the United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA), and in coordination with civil society 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: 1. Examine the effectiveness and implementation of laws (MCW and the RH 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; 4. 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; 5. 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; 6. 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; 7. 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; The National Inquiry consisted of three interrelated parts: 1. The Launch of the National Inquiry on 1 March 2015 at the Commission on Human Rights and the official call for submissions from individuals and/or organizations documenting their experiences with respect to denial of/ discrimination and barriers in accessing reproductive health services. This may be in the form of acts or omissions resulting to denial and/or discrimination in accessing reproductive health rights. These may be policies, practices which deny, hinder of prevent access to reproductive health, single and isolated incidents or systemic acts of violations and discrimination. 2. Regional Consultations through its fifteen (15) regional field offices on CEDAW and Magna Carta with particular focus on Reproductive Health Rights to be conducted in March; The Regional Consultations will be conducted by the Commission’s Regional Offices with guidance from GEWHRC and the UNFPA; Individuals with specific 14