대학 내 젠더폭력 근절과 인권센터의 역할 - 성평등 업무 형식화 문제를 중심으로 -

Abstract

A human rights institution is an institution necessary for all organizations with an obligation to guarantee human rights and performs the functions of protection, promotion, and remedy of human rights. As a human rights institution within the university, the Human Rights Center started with the Gender Equality Center established in the mid to late 1990s. The transition to the Human Rights Center can be seen as an expansion as a comprehensive human rights organization aimed at promoting human rights in universities and embracing various human rights violations that were not covered by the existing Gender Equality Centers. However, despite these transformations and restructuring, as with the operation of the Gender Equality Center, the lack of grounds for the establishment of the Human Rights Center within the university, insufficient workforce, financial problems, and other issues led to the same problem of not being properly established as a Human Rights Institution within the university. These problems had a great influence on the formalization of gender equality work within the Human Rights Center. Eventually, due to this perfunctory gender equality work, there is a limitation in understanding structural violence to eradicate gender violence in universities and fails to solve fundamental problems through the improvement of university culture. To prevent the formalization of gender equality work, above all, it is necessary to re-establish the status of the Human Rights Center as a Human Rights Institution within the university. In addition, for effective operation, it is important to provide adequate workforce and financial support, secure institutional expertise, seek out the direction of violence prevention education in universities.