It is upon my leadership, as your incumbent Chairperson, to make certain that under the term of office I have been entrusted with, the CHR will remain unswerving in its work. The Commission will press forward and steady, making accessible to ALL its programs and services while continuing to incorporate innovative systems and approaches that will shore up the impacts of its work as an NHRI. Under my watch, the Commission will emphasize not only the protection and promotion of human rights starting with and using the proactive methods and mechanisms to prevent violations, but also endorse, support and help enable the remedies and resolutions by partner government offices in pursuing accountability and the rule of law. Our interventions will be swift, impartial, just, and most of all humane. Under my stewardship of the CHR, we will strive to be inspired and moved by the words and deeds of some of our most gallant human rights activists, one of whom I quote here from a speech entitled “I Have A Dream” who declared: “We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.” ` We dream and deliver, as Martin Luther King had envisioned, albeit not without the help of our fellow Filipinos and with the blessings of the Lord God Almighty. Indeed, as we continue to demand dignity for all, we urge that righteousness and justice for human rights be served. RICHARD P. PALPAL-LATOC Chairperson 4