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A study of the rights conditions in local government human rights policies: Focusing on 136 local government human rights ordinances

  • Journal of Human Rights Studies
  • Abbr : JHRS
  • 2023, 6(2), pp.245-283
  • DOI : 10.22976/JHRS.2023.6.2.245
  • Publisher : Korean Association of Human Rights Studies
  • Research Area : Social Science > Law > Law of Special Parts > Human Rights / International Human Rights Law
  • Received : November 20, 2023
  • Accepted : December 15, 2023
  • Published : December 31, 2023

Ahn Shihyeong 1

1경기도청 인권담당관 인권조사관

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ABSTRACT

Since the National Human Rights Commission of Korea recommended that local governments across the country enact and revise human rights ordinances in 2013, human rights ordinances have been proliferating, but suffered a setback in 2018 with the repeal of the Chungcheongnam-do Human Rights Ordinance, which was subsequently reenacted, and now, in 2023, the discussion of repealing human rights ordinances has resurfaced. Against this backdrop, this study examines under what conditions human rights ordinances, which are the most fundamental in the field of local government human rights policy, were enacted and did not, and what are their ‘rights conditions’. Since human rights are not developed sequentially in reality, but are realized in a multi-layered and complex manner, there is a significant need to approach them in an integrated manner in the dimension of the ‘human rights circulation’ leading to ‘rights conditions’, ‘rights claims’, and ‘rights effects’. To this end, I analyzed the status and characteristics of human rights ordinances and local council discussions in 136 local governments that enacted human rights ordinances from 2007 to September 2023, focusing on international trends, domestic human rights policy status, citizen movements that enacted human rights ordinances, and anti-human rights movements. As a result, it diagnoses what conditions have been working as ‘rights conditions’ for local government human rights policies, and based on this, it suggests directions for local government human rights policies to be stably promoted within the framework of the human rights circulation.

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