Since its creation, the Human Rights Commission has done little or nothing. The commissioners appear occasionally at their office in Monrovia, and have not effectively designed any programs. The telephone at the Human Rights Commission's offices has not been working for months and the chair Justice Hall Badio has been out of the country since September 1999 for medical reasons.

According to chair Hall Badio, seventeen complaints have been filed with the Human Rights Commission. According to Justice Badio, the commission heard the complaints, which were largely concerned with non-state abuses such as domestic violence, and ruled on them. The Human Rights Commission did receive one complaint from a group of prisoners accused of entering the country to overthrow the government, but it declined to address it and referred it to the ministry of justice. The in-custody killing of prominent Taylor critic Samuel Doki, along with his wife and two others, after their arrest by Taylor security forces on November 28, 1997 prompted the Human Rights Commission to condemn the killings on the radio. The Human Rights Commission has visited prisons and police cells in Monrovia and was permitted access with a letter from the ministry of justice. In late 1999, the Human Rights Commission wrote to the minister of justice with recommendations on prison conditions.138

The only written material that appears to have been produced by the commission since its founding is to be a letter written to a local human rights group. The group had been evicted by government security forces, and had filed a complaint with the commission. The commission sent the complaint to the justice ministry, and sent the NGO a letter informing them of the forwarding.