H. Issuance of Clearances and Certifications
The CHR issues clearances and certificates as part of helping government agencies comply to,
employ, and maintain the optimum possible standards and ethics in performing their
administrative tasks. This includes hiring personnel and satisfying other purposes such as
facilitating procedures for participation to international missions, schooling, promotion,
confirmation, nomination, optional retirement, and compulsory retirement, but more so, to
determine their human rights accountability. The issuance of CHR clearance and certifications
accommodates the requirements of specific sectors such as the Philippine National Police (PNP),
Philippine Army (PA), Philippine Navy (PN), Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and other
requesting parties particularly those intending to join government offices in providing public
service. The other rationale for issuing the clearance and certificate is to determine the participant
or the client’s personal and professional data and records. This verifies whether they have no
record of human rights violations, with record of human rights violations, or with pending
resolution of human rights violations. The ultimate purpose is to reduce the risk and costs of
signing up unreliable personnel with substandard merits in the crucial posts and assignments. In
sum, the clearing process aims to determine eligibility or non-eligibility for government service.
The Internal Legal Services Division (ILSD) of the CHR primarily performs the task of issuing
clearances and certificates. Issued clearances counted 1,221 for the year released to mostly the
Philippine National Police (PNP) with 321, Philippine Army (PA) with 272, Philippine Navy (PN)
with 168, Philippine Air Force (PAF)/Armed Forces of the Philippine (AFP) with 196, and an
unspecified group of applicants/recipients numbering 133. Clearances were issued for the
purposes of UN mission (220), schooling abroad (199), domestic schooling (254), promotion
(165), confirmation (236), nomination (54), compulsory retirement (1), travel abroad (5), and
unspecified others (106). In all, 1,240 were released.
Number of Clearances by Purpose
5
54 1
106
220
236
199
165
254
UN mission
Schooling Abroad
Domestic Schooling
Promotion
Confirmation
Nomination
Compulsary Retirement
Travel Abroad
Others
I. Forensic Services Rendered
Providing forensic support through the employment of
Forensic Services
quality forensic is a crucial feature of the entire program
of services whose goal is to produce objective findings
towards the credible resolution of human rights cases.
CHR’s collaboration with forensic scientists aids the
entire CHR investigative system in conducting unbiased
and competent enquiry into the cases presented for the
Commission’s intervention. It is necessary that the
Commission’s forensic work entail availing of the
expertise of its own specialists while at the same time
Exhumations/ Medico-Legal
partnering with specialists from relevant agencies of
Examinations
government (such as the law enforcement agencies and
the NGOs) to corroborate and solidify findings.
Particularly when faced with medical/clinical cases involving legal significance, the task depends
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