대학 인권센터 규정의 편파 적용 방지를 위한 개정 제안: 7개 선도 대학을 중심으로

Abstract

This study examines head and committee norms of human rights center at seven leading universities in Korea. These members of the human rights center have a profound impact on rulings on on-campus human rights violations including sexual harassment and sexual assault. It will be shown that relevant regulations are not fully prepared to meet the demand of having the appropriate head and committee of the human rights center, which may not prevent them from leading to biased procedures and decisions in favor of powerful perpetrators. At the universities where professor-on-student harassments often occur, the human rights center's protection of authoritative faculty harassers would cause secondary damage to victims. Accordingly, this study proposes an amendment to the regulations to require university human rights centers to function objectively as follows; (i) the qualification of the head and committee members must be clearly stated in the regulation to ensure that those who are expert in and sensitive to human rights and gender-based violence are appointed; (ii) the number of the members of the same gender and internal committee members cannot exceed the number of members required to make decisions; and (iii) clauses have to be revised so that inappropriate committee members can successfully be avoided, excluded and rejected.