on women, I welcome the opportunity of properly documenting and vigorously analyzing policies, practices, and gaps that impact the enjoyment of women’s reproductive health, and the opportunity as well to gain lessons, draw recommendations. We see this Inquiry as part of the fulfillment of our role as Gender Ombud. Through the regional consultations, the fact finding, and the public hearings, we have documented the issues and the gaps in the implementation of the law, we have made appropriate recommendations. Through the findings and recommendations of these report, we are hoping to create concrete changes in the lives of Filipino women and girls. Commissioner Gwendolyn Ll. Gana-Pimentel A National Inquiry in the Age of Post-truth politics I would like to express my sincerest thanks to the participants of the National Inquiry of Reproductive Health that was conducted by the Commission on Human Rights. The inquiry allowed the CHR to gain valuable insights on the opportunities and challenges that have marked the implementation of the Reproductive Health Law. Through the nation-wide consultation done in Manila, Legaspi, Zamboanga City, Tacloban City and Cagayan De Oro City, we have been fortunate enough to be able to hear very detailed stories of the most vulnerable and marginalized sectors in our society such as the poorest of the poor, rural women, indigenous women, women with disabilities, lesbians, Bisexual, and Transwomen, women in the informal economy, elderly women, girl children and women who are internally displaced. We have been fortunate to have been joined by experienced service providers who identified key issue areas where capacities must be improved so as to ensure that quality reproductive health services are delivered to the most vulnerable and marginalized. I have sensed their frustration as well as their continuing sense of commitment to care for the Filipino women despite of the almost herculean task that have been laid before them. I would also very much like to take this opportunity underscore several key reflections about our national inquiry namely: 7