The Syrian Future Movement and Public Freedoms
The Syrian Future Movement views public freedoms as a set of recognized human rights, enjoyed and voluntarily exercised by individuals, considered fundamental at a certain civilizational level, thus their protection is a legal obligation that should be ensured by the state, with guarantees against infringement and clear methods for their protection.
The Syrian Future Movement believes in the necessity of enhancing personal freedoms and rights, such as the right to live a dignified life, equality before the law, and the prevention of arbitrary arrest or exile, or exposure to torture.
The Syrian Future Movement believes in individual freedom, the necessity of non-interference in individuals’ private lives, and their rights to mobility, nationality, marriage, ownership, and other rights.
The Syrian Future Movement strives to enhance spiritual, civil, and political freedom provided they do not impinge upon the freedoms of others, like the right to think, to opinion, to religion or its absence, and the right to establish parties, associations, and unions, and the right to peaceful demonstration.
The Syrian Future Movement works to solidify the Universal Declaration of Human Rights issued by the United Nations in 1948, which concerns the right to practice public freedoms for all individuals, without discrimination based on gender, color, race, or cultural affiliation, and supports distinguishing this declaration between civil rights, such as the right to equality and non-exposure to torture or arbitrary arrest, rights to mobility and settlement, family rights, and political rights, such as the freedom of expression and the right to union, party, and association membership.
The Syrian Future Movement believes in the relativity of freedoms in terms of location, time, or state intervention in normal or exceptional circumstances, or in terms of the importance between types of freedoms, or in terms of individual orientations that distinguish between individual and collective freedom, considering that a balance is required between all these aspects, with no domination of individual freedom over collective freedom or vice versa.
The Syrian Future Movement believes in the important role of the law in protecting public freedoms by recognizing them in laws and regulations, both fundamental (constitution) and regulatory (by-laws), through setting specific mechanisms, and providing institutions that ensure this.
The Syrian Future Movement strives to enhance economic and social development through public freedoms that create an environment conducive to investment and innovation.
The Syrian Future Movement strives to empower individuals to participate in decision-making that affects their lives and helps build a healthy democratic society.
The Syrian Future Movement emphasizes the necessity of protecting individuals from violations by authority, and the necessity of ensuring a dignified and free life for every individual in Syrian society without discrimination.
The Syrian Future Movement believes in the importance of academic and artistic freedoms that ensure individuals’ rights to artistic creation and scientific research.
The Syrian Future Movement emphasizes the necessity of giving special importance to the Syrian particularity in public freedoms.
The Syrian Future Movement stresses the necessity of protecting the freedom of various minorities from any persecution, within the mechanisms of the state to protect both public and private freedoms.
