인권조례 제정 동향과 향후 과제

Abstract

This study is focused on the movement on the enactment of human rights ordinance in local community and on several tasks to be solved to establish more human rights ordinances nationwide. Recently, some local governments including Kwangju metropolitan city have tried to enact human rights ordinance, whatsoever the contents and structures of the ordinances are various on the basis of the characteristics of local community. However, compared with Japan's cases on the human rights ordinances, the number of Korean cases are still smaller. Human rights ordinance needs to reflect the characteristics and interests of local government to expand the human rights of residences who have lived in the region. Therefore, human rights ordinance can help to promote and protect human rights of vulnerable group, which can be neglected due to priority of human rights policy enacted by the related laws nationwide. Recent experiences of human rights cities tend to revitalize human rights ordinance within the context of local politics. However, sociological imagination remains to be fully further explored to grasp genuinely bottom-up aspect of human rights promotion in our society. Regardless of legal foundation and dignity of human rights itself, there are some reasons why it is hardly to enact human rights ordinance by local government. One of main reasons is that administrative powers and local council have not understood social significance of human rights and its ordinance as a systemic mechanism. This study is trying to analyze the reasons of insufficient tendencies on establishment of human rights ordinances, and to approach the current movement on the enactment of human rights ordinances of selected local governments, and to several key issues remained in the process of enactment of human rights ordinances as well as the tasks to overcome to spread the movement on establishment of human rights ordinance in the future. To guarantee the effectiveness of human rights ordinance, on reflection of characteristics local community, stake-holders including positive policy-making of local administrative government, active role of local parliament members, enthusiastic participation of citizen and continuos coordination by non-government organizations are needed to be closely connected to the movement on establishment of human rights ordinance.