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The Movement for the Protection of the Human Rights
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The basis of our program of activities is the UN’s General Declaration on Human Rights. The essence of our program is human rights because their respect ensures a healthy economy, a general welfare and progress. We pledge for a true parliamentary democracy, a free market, a free flow of ideas, goods and people. Whether a monarchy will be restored in our country or the republic should remain is something that people ought to decide with their will at a democratic referendum. (The prevailing private feelings among the organization’s officers suggest that a monarchy would probably strongly advance the democracy and economic recovery.) We oppose death penalty and more pronounced regulations that reflect state’s interventions. Respect of all civil and political rights, including the economic, the social and the cultural ones, has also been expressed in our program. (Here we mean freedom of association, fair elections, freedom of information, independent trade unions, independent judiciary, right for strikes, freedom of opinion and faith, democratic work legislation, and care for social cases of population.) The rights of national minorities and ethnical groups should be based on a complete observation of obligations as contained in international conventions. We are against poor estimates and dissensions and favor instead calm dialogues based on facts that might lead various nationalities and ethnical groups of our country to rational and best solutions. We oppose violence coming from any side. We also oppose forcible changing of frontiers and demand respect of the Constitution and international law. We demand that the rights of the Serbs living in the adjacent countries (derived from the former SFR Yugoslavia) be respected to the same extent as the rights of the other ethnic groups living in our country. 

Free market, private property, honest work, observation of law, development of private enterpreneurship, reduction of taxes, and development of trade, transport and tourism ought to be the country’s priority interests. Education should be political-free, and a stronger effect of the principle of capability as a criterion in education (and all jobs, for that matter) should be enabled. We also support the idea of opening of private education institutions. Since social support can not be ensured sufficiently for everyone in need, only the most endangered population segments must be taken care of, whereas, at the same time, fundamental measures must be undertaken to democratize the society and strengthen the national economy. We pledge for abolishment of the current international embargo measures, access of our country to international organizations and bodies, integration of our isolated country into the international community, peace initiatives, and for friendship with our neighbors and all nations of the world. All the emigrant Serbs should have undisturbed right to return to the country. A stronger investment of capital and skill of the Serbian businessmen living abroad needs to be encouraged more. Family is the main social cell, so we are for the parents’ right to give their children a desired upbringing, for a humanization of the relations in family and between sexes. Army and police should be politics-free and transformed into efficient services: their personnel should have good salaries and other benefits and, in return, they must protect observation of laws, public order and peace, and the country’s frontiers. 
 

 
 

The Movement for the Protection 
of the Human Rights
Mutapova 12, 11000 Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Telephone/fax: 381-11-3911829
E-mail: pokret@EUnet.yu