법제화 이후 대학 인권센터의 과제와 전망

Abstract

How are Human Rights Centers at the universities acting after the amendment of the Higher Education Act and the enforcement of it?This research reviewed some principles relating to the status of human rights centers in order to play the proper role to protect the human rights in the universities. Those principles are composed of norms, independence, diversity, strengthening of proper authority to protect victims of human rights violation.
 Several problems are found to improve the key functions (investigation of human rights abuses, human rights education, and policy development on human rights) such as ambiguous definitions of the jurisdiction and authority, necessity of separation of investigation and dicision, the defficiency of working staffs and instability of their employment, absence of policy development of human rights.
 There are five suggestions to solve these difficulties. Firstly, human rights centers need to strengthen the function of education and policy development of human rights. Secondly, independence of human rights centers are guaranteed through the process of substantive management even though it is very hard to secure the legal and formal independence in the universities. Thirdly, stronger power should be given to the human rights institutions. Fourthly, instruction and manuals should be made to deal with the power harassment at working places properly. Fifthly, the government (the Ministry of Education) may have the national organizations to assist the human right centers established in the middle of financial predicaments. Newly opened human rights centers need more sophisticated design to have the expertise and efficiency as a human rights institution so that they can play the right role protecting the human rights in the universities.