Analysis and Explanation of the Human Rights Dimensions of Security Surveillance

Abstract

Ensuring the security of individuals in society while adhering to human rights principles is among the core responsibilities of the state. However, this study, while acknowledging the significance and necessity of this duty, aims to elucidate and examine the impact of citizens’ roles and participation in achieving desirable and sustainable security. Undoubtedly, security that stems from the collaboration, empathy, and synergy of various social groups with security institutions is enduring and resilient. Given that there are numerous commonalities—particularly in some key areas of human rights such as the right to life, human dignity, the right to liberty, and the rights to education and upbringing—between Islamic human rights and what is referred to as universal human rights, despite the foundational and ideological differences between them and what we consider as the “rights of the nation” based on the Constitution of our country, and despite the fact that this issue has become a point of pressure, negotiation, and exploitation by major powers, it is essential to design a model encompassing explanatory, defensive, and offensive approaches for interaction within this framework. Clarifying common principles and establishing grounds for joint cooperation—while avoiding insistence on exchanging points of divergence—provides a context for reducing conflicts. Consequently, human rights and human security, due to their shared focus on a common subject—namely, "human dignity" and the development of various dimensions of human life including individual, social, and international aspects—possess the potential for mutual reinforcement and synergy. Human rights provide the necessary legal and juridical foundations for realizing human security strategies, namely "protection" and "empowerment." In return, human security, by emphasizing the operational dimensions of international human rights instruments—especially economic, social, and cultural rights and the securitization of certain shared concerns with human rights—offers the necessary support for goals explicitly stated in global human rights instruments.