24 “MS. ROSARIO BRAID: Madam President, my colleagues. I am inclined to agree with Commissioner Aquino. Although I feel that the legal and political aspects are important, I would like to see human rights in a broader context. I feel that the approach here is, to use the analogy in medicine, more curative than preventive. Perhaps such a commission, if it were elevated to a constitutional commission, should concern itself more with the environment, the historical, cultural, socioeconomic conditions that have fomented this state of attitudinal and value orientation towards violence. . . .”92 (Emphasis supplied) “MR. MONSOD: Madam President, I was just wondering whether we can think about the issue a little more in this sense, that we can see over the next few years, maybe in five or ten years, given the structural problems of the economy—the poverty, and maldistribution of income and so on— the structure of political power in the country, there will be problems of human rights in the foreseeable future. Personally, I would like to see this kind of commission expand its horizons beyond crimes involving political beliefs. Perhaps over time this could take into consideration the wider view of human rights, social and economic rights, the educational aspects— the research into the deeper reasons for all kinds of human rights violations. In other words, the creation of a constitutional commission is a signal of the importance of human rights, but the more immediate problems are these crimes involving political beliefs. But this does not mean that this commission cannot be expanded in its scope later on. I do not see any point in time where our country will not need a Commission on Human Rights, given the very wide spectrum of human rights that are really attainable or, at least, what we would like to attain over the years. So personally, I would like to see not a closed definition of the functions of this commission, but a slight opening so that if we do solve the immediate problems, we can go into these other problems.”93 (Emphasis supplied) “MR. MONSOD: No. We would like it to be constitutional creation because we could feel the problems of human rights particularly in the next few years. We foresee in the foreseeable future that we will have more problems of human rights, even in the narrow sense of the political and civil rights. But we also foresee that over time as we become more developed, as our institutions function normally, the scope of this commission, since it 92 Deliberations of the Constitutional Commission on the investigatory powers of the Commission on Human Rights, p. 735, op cit., p. 78. 93 Deliberations of the Constitutional Commission on the investigatory powers of the Commission on Human Rights, p. 738, op cit., p. 82.