The Sources of Human Rights

Hyo-Je CHO is a professor of sociology at SungKongHoe University, Seoul. He has written extensively on the subjects of human rights and civil society. Among his monographs and co-edited works are Contemporary South Korean Society (Routledge, 2013), In Search of Human Rights (Hanul, 2011), A Grammar of Human Rights (Humanitas, 2007), and Human Rights and Civic Activism in Korea (A-Media, 2005). He was closely involved with the establishment of the Human Rights Commission in Korea, served in the Policy Panel for the Ministry of Justice, and is currently a member of the Human Rights Committee of Seoul Metropolitan City. He was a Visiting Fellow in Harvard Law School and a Visiting Professor in Free University Berlin. He holds a BSc in politics and international relations from London University, an MSc in comparative social studies from Oxford University, and a PhD in social policy from London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Chinsung CHUNG is a professor of sociology and Director of the Human Rights Centre at Seoul National University. She received her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include gender sociology, social history and human rights. She published books on social movements in Japan, Japanese military sexual slavery and human rights situation in Korea and Japan. She also published a number of papers at various prestigious academic journals including Human Rights Quarterly. She recently conducted national surveys on sexual trafficking and human rights consciousness. Currently, she is President of the Korean Sociological Association. She wrote several important reports at the United Nations as Member of the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, and now of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee.

Virginia B. DANDAN was appointed by the Human Rights Council as the independent expert on human rights and international solidarity in June 2011. She assumed her functions on 1 August 2011. She is an internationally recognized expert in economic, social and cultural rights. She served as the Chairperson of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for eight years from 1999 to 2007, having been a member of the Committee for twenty years (1990-2010). She was a faculty member at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts until 2009, and Dean from 2001 to 2006. She has extensive experience in human rights work on the ground, providing technical assistance on UN treaty body reporting, and training courses on economic, social and cultural rights, human rights in development, human rights education and training, the rights of indigenous peoples, cultural rights, gender issues, and sustainable development.

Dong-Choon KIM is a professor of sociology at SungKongHoe University, Seoul. He obtained his PhD from Seoul National University. He served the Korean government as a standing commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Republic of Korea (TRCK) from 2005 to 2009. As a commissioner, he has directed the investigation of the Korean War massacres for the first time as a governmental body after the incidents occurred. The research areas that he has focused on are historical sociology of Korean politics, working class formation and the Korean War. He has written several academic articles and books, in Korean, including Social Movement in 1960s of Korea (1991). A Study of Korea's Working Class (1995), Shadow of Modernity(2000), War and Society(2000), and Engine of America-Market and War(2004). Among them, War and Society (2000) was translated into Germany, Japanese, and English (English title: The Unending Korean War).

Joo-Young LEE is a research professor of the Human Rights Centre at the Seoul National University and coordinator of this winter course. She received her Ph.D in international human rights law at the University of Essex in the UK. Her publications include ‘Implementation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’, co-authored with P Hunt et al., in N Rodley et al. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of International Human Rights Law (2013, forthcoming), ‘The Human Rights Responsibilities of Pharmaceutical Companies in relation to Access to Medicines’, The Journal of Law, Medicines and Ethics Vol. 40(2) (2012): 220-233, co-authored with P Hunt. Her book on A Human Rights Framework for Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines will be published by Ashgate in 2014. The area of her interests includes international human rights law, human rights and development, economic, social and cultural rights, and business and human rights.

Seonghoon Anselmo LEE is currently Executive Director of the Korea Human Rights Foundation (KHRF) and Director of the Policy Center of the Korea NGO Council for Overseas Development Cooperation (KCOC). He is serving as a member of Human Rights Commission of Seoul Metropolitan City. He has been teaching about global governance, civil society, human rights and development at the Graduate School of NGOs Studies at Kyunghee University and others. Previously, he worked for the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) as Director General in charge of policy and education (2008.4-2010.3). He also served as Executive Director of Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), a Bangkok-based regional human rights NGO (2005-2008.4) after working in Geneva for 8 years (1997-2004) as Secretary General of International Catholic Movement for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs (ICMICA)-Pax Romana, global network of Catholic professionals and intellectuals committed to social justice and peace.

Suzannah LINTON, a UK solicitor, is Chair of International Law at Bangor University Law School in the UK. She is also the founding Director of the Bangor Centre for International Law. Her recent publications include General Principles and Rules of International Criminal Procedure, co-edited with Göran Sluiter et al., ‘Rediscovering the War Crimes trials in Hong Kong, 1946-1948’ in the Melbourne Journal of International Law Vol. 13(2). Her new book on Hong Kong’s War Crimes Trials will be published by Oxford University Press in September 2013. She has worked at international courts and tribunals, and international organisations, for example at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the Special Panels for Serious Crimes in East Timor and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia. She has particular interests in Asia, having for several years been engaged in East Timor, Indonesia, Cambodia, Bangladesh and Nepal. Professor Linton previously led the Human Rights programme at the University of Hong Kong.

Vitit MUNTARBHORN is a Professor of Law at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. He is a graduate of the University of Oxford and the Free University of Brussels. He has helped the United Nations in a variety of capacities, including as UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children and UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). In 2011 he was Chairperson of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Ivory Coast. In 2012 he was appointed as one of the Commissioners of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria. He also serves as a member of the Committee of Experts on Conventions and Recommendations (International Labour Organisation). He has published widely on international law, human rights and humanitarian law.

Eunhong PARK is a Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Director of Resource Center for Asian NGO at SungKongHoe University. He is currently a consultant of the People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD) and of the Korean House for International Solidarity (KHIS) on the human rights issues in Asian Countries including Burma and Thailand. He has also been a consultant of the May 18 Memorial Foundation. He was a visiting researcher at the Political Economy Centre of Chulalongkorn University and has taught at the Graduate School of International Studies of Seoul National University. His research interests are varied, with civil society and human rights being a consistent theme based on performing fieldworks mainly in Southeast Asian countries. Among his publications are State Violence and Human Rights in Asia (co-editing, 2011), States of Democracy (co-editing, 2008), East Asia and Korea (in Korean, 2008), Transformation of East Asia (in Korean, 2008), Democratization in East Asia and Redressing Past Injustices (in Korean, 2004).

Hae Bong SHIN is Professor of International Law in the Faculty of Law at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan. She is currently Secretary-General of the Japanese Association of International Human Rights Law. She received degrees from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva (DES, 1993) and the University of Tokyo (PhD, 1995). Her research interests are international and domestic implementation of human rights treaties and states parties’ positive obligations for the effective realization of human rights. She is the author of several Japanese books such as States Parties’ Obligations under Human Rights Conventions (1999), Contemporary Development of Human Rights Conventions (2009), and International Human Rights Law: Dynamism of International Standards and Coordination with Domestic Law (forthcoming). Her articles in English include “Racial Discrimination, Hate Speech and Hate Crimes in Japan: Some Outstanding Issues in Light of International Human Rights Law”, in M. Komori et al. (eds.), Contemporary Forms of Racial Discrimination: Reflections of Our Times (2013), "Chapter 14: Japan", in D. Shelton (ed.), International Law and Domestic Legal Systems: Incorporation, Transformation, and Persuasion (2011), and "Compensation for Victims of Wartime Atrocities: Recent Developments in Japan's Case Law", 3 Journal of International Criminal Justice (2005).

Heisoo SHIN currently serves as a member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Ms. Shin holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature, a M.A. in Sociology from Ewha Womans University, and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University. She has been a lifelong advocate of the women’s human rights movement and has substantially contributed to the struggle to end violence against women. She served as an expert on the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women from 2001-2008, and as a commissioner of the National Human Rights Commission in Korea from 2005-2008. She is currently the representative of the Korea Center for United Nations Human Rights Policy (KOCUN), and the Movement against Sexual Exploitation (MASE). She is also an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of International Studies at Ewha Womans University in Seoul.

Fees

The course fee, which includes course materials, refreshments, a closing dinner and a field trip, is 500 USD for international participants and 300,000 KRW for nationals. Once the selection process is finished, the Program Fee Payment Guidelines will be sent to those selected participants.

Scholarships

A limited number of scholarships are available for participants with the financial difficulty to pay for the course.

김동춘

성공회대학교 사회학과 교수이며, 서울대학교에서 박사학위를 받았음. 2005년부터 2009년까지 진실과 화해위원회의 상임위원으로 활동했으며, 재임 당시 한국전 민간인 학살에 대한 정부기관 조사를 이끌었음. 주 연구 분야는 한국정치, 노동계급의 형성, 한국전쟁에 대한 역사사회학으로서, 『1960년대 사회운동』 (1991), 『한국사회 노동자 연구』 (1995), 『근대의 그늘』 (2000), 『전쟁과 사회』(2000), 『미국의 엔진, 전쟁과 시장』 (2004) 등 다수의 논문과 책을 썼음. 그 중 전쟁과 사회(2000)는 독일어, 일본어, 영어로도 번역 출간되었음. (영어 제목 : The Unending Korean War).

박은홍

성공회대학교 사회과학부 교수이며, 성공회대학교 아시아NGO정보센터 소장을 맡고 있음. 버마, 태국 등 아시아 나라의 인권문제에 대해 아시아 참여연대, 국제민주연대, 5.18 기념재단에 자문을 주고 있음. 태국 출랑롱콘대학 정치경제연구소의 방문 연구원을 역임했고, 서울대학교 국제대학원에서 강의했음. 주로 동남아시아 국가에서의 현장 연구를 통해서 시민사회 및 인권에 대한 연구를 진행하고 있음. 주요 저서로는 『State Violence and Human Rights in Asia』 (co-editing, 2011), 『States of Democracy』 (co-editing, 2008), 『동아시아와 한국』(2008), 『동아시아의 전환』(2008), 『동아시아의 민주화와 과거청산』(2004) 등이 있음.

버지니아 단단 (Virginia Dandan)

2011년 6월 인권과 국제연대에 관한 독립적 전문가로 임명돼, 그해 8월부터 활동 중임. 국제적으로 알려진, 경제사회문화적 권리 전문가로서, 1990년부터 2010년까지 유엔 경제사회문화적 권리위원회의 위원으로 활동했으며, 1999년부터 2007년까지는 동 위원회의 의장직을 수행했음. 2009년까지 필리핀대의 교수를 지냈음. 유엔 인권조약기구 보고서 작성에 대한 자문, 경제사회문화적 권리, 개발과 인권, 인권교육, 선주민의 권리, 문화적 권리, 젠더 문제, 지속가능한 개발 등에 대한 교육을 진행하는 등 현장 인권 활동의 오랜 경험이 있음.

비팃 문타폰 (Vitit Muntarbhorn)

태국 방콕의 출랑롱콘 대학의 법학 교수이며, 영국 옥스퍼드 대학과 브뤼셀 자유대학에서 학위를 받았음. 유엔 아동매매에 대한 특별보고관, 북한 인권상황에 관한 특별보고관 등 유엔에서 여러 활동을 해 왔음. 2011년에는 아이보리 코스트 유엔 조사위원회의 의장으로 활동했고, 2012년에는 시리아 유엔 조사위원회의 위원으로 임명돼 활동 중임. 국제노동기구의 협약과 권고에 대한 전문가위원회 위원이기도 함. 국제법, 인권, 인도법에 대한 저술을 하였음.

수잔나 린튼 (Suzannah Linton)

영국 뱅고르 대학 법학과 국제법 교수이며, 뱅고르 국제법 센터의 초대 소장이기도 함. 괴란 슬뤼터와 함께 『General Principles and Rules of International Criminal Procedure』를 엮었으며, 『홍콩의 전범재판』에 관한 책이 2013년 하반기에 옥스퍼드대학출판부에서 출간예정임. 구 유고슬라비아 국제전범재판소, 동티모르의 중대범죄 특별법정, 유엔인권최고대표 캄보디아 사무소 등 국제재판소 및 국제기구들에서 일한 바 있음. 아시아 지역에 특별한 관심을 갖고, 수년에 걸쳐 동티모르, 인도네시아, 캄보디아, 방글라데시, 네팔과 관계해 왔음. 뱅고르로 옮기기 전, 홍콩대학에서 인권프로그램을 지도한 바 있음.

신혜봉

일본 동경의 아오야마 가쿠인 대학의 법학과 국제법 교수이며, 현재 일본국제인권법협회 사무총장. 제네바 국제대학원과 동경대에서 각각 석사와 박사학위를 받았음. 인권조약의 국제적, 국내적 이행과 인권의 효과적 실현을 위한 당사국의 적극적 의무가 주 연구 관심사임. 일본어 저서로는 『인권조약 하의 당사국의 의무』(1999), 『인권조약의 현대적 발전』 (2009), 『국제인권법: 국제기준의 역동적 발전과 국내법과의 조정』(출간 예정)이 있음. 영어 논문으로는, M. Komori 등이 엮은 『Contemporary Forms of Racial Discrimination: Reflections of Our Times』에 실린 ‘Racial Discrimination, Hate Speech and Hate Crimes in Japan: Some Outstanding Issues in Light of International Human Rights Law’(2013), D Shelton이 엮은 『International Law and Domestic Legal Systems: Incorporation, Transformation, and Persuasion』 (2011)의 ‘Chapter 14: Japan’ 등이 있음.

신혜수

현재 유엔경제사회문화적 권리위원회 위원. 이화여대에서 영문학 학사, 사회학 석사, 미국 럿거스 대학에서 박사학위를 받았음. 오랫동안 여성 인권운동, 특히 여성에 대한 폭력에 맞서는 운동에 몸담아 왔음. 2001년부터 2008년까지 유엔여성차별철폐위원회 위원, 2005년부터 2008년까지는 한국 국가인권위원회 위원으로 활동했음. 현재 한국의 NGO, 유엔인권정책센터 상임대표, 성매매추방범국민운동 상임대표를 맡고 있음. 서울의 이화여자대학교 국제대학원의 겸임 교수임.

이성훈

현재 한국인권재단의 상임이사이며, 국제개발협력민간협의회(KCOC) 정책센터장. 서울시 인권위원회 위원직을 맡고 있으며, 경희대학교의 NGO 대학원 등에서 글로벌 거버넌스, 시민사회, 인권과 개발 등을 강의함. 2008년부터 2010년까지 한국의 국가인권위원회에서 정책교육국장으로서 일했음. 2005년부터 2008년까지는 태국 방콕에 위치한 아시아 지역 인권단체 네트워크인 인권과 개발을 위한 아시아포럼(포럼 아시아)의 사무총장, 그 이전 8년 간은 제네바에 위치한 국제NGO로, 사회정의와 평화를 위한 가톨릭 지식인들의 국제적 네트워크인 팍스로마나에서 일하는 등 국제 및 지역 차원의 NGO에서 오래 활동한 경험이 있음.

이주영

서울대학교 인권센터 박사이며, <아시아와 인권>, <국제개발과 인권> 강좌의 주임. 영국 에섹스대학에서 국제인권법 전공으로 박사학위를 받았음. N Rodley와 S Sheeran이 엮은 『Routledge Handbook of International Human Rights Law』에 P Hunt 등과 ‘Implementation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’ (2013)을 썼으며, ‘Human Rights Responsibilities of Pharmaceutical Companies in relation to Access to Medicines’(2012) 등의 논문을 학술지에 발표했음. 책 『지적재산과 의약품 접근성에 대한 인권적 틀』이 2014년 아쉬게이트 (Ashgate) 출판사에서 출간 예정.

정진성

서울대 사회학과 교수이며 인권센터장. 미국 시카고 대학에서 박사학위를 받았음. 젠더사회학, 사회사와 인권 등이 주 연구 관심분야임. 일본의 사회운동, 일본군 성노예와 한국과 일본의 인권상황에 대한 책을 저술했고, Human Rights Quarterly 등 명성이 있는 학술지에 논문을 발표한 바 있음. 최근엔 국내에서 성매매와 인권 인식에 대한 조사를 하였고, 현재 한국사회학회의 장을 맡고 있음. 과거 유엔인권소위, 현재 유엔인권이사회 자문위원회의 위원으로서 여러 주요 보고서를 집필하였음.

조효제

성공회대 사회학과 교수이며, 인권과 시민사회에 관한 국내 대표적 연구자 중 한명. 『Contemporary South Korean Society』 (Routledge, 2013), 『인권을 찾아서』 (한울, 2011), 『인권의 문법』 (후마니타스, 2007), 『Human Rights and Civic Activism in Korea』 (A-Media, 2005) 등을 단독 혹은 공동으로 집필함. 국가인권위원회의 설립 운동에 긴밀하게 참여했으며, 법무부 정책위원회 위원을 역임했고, 현재 서울시 인권위원회 위원으로 활동. 하버드 대학 로스쿨 인권 펠로우와 베를린 자유대학 초빙교수를 지냈음. 런던대학에서 정치학과 국제관계로 학사, 옥스퍼드 대학에서 비교사회학 석사, 런던 정경대에서 사회정책 박사학위를 받음.

프로그램 참가비

프로그램 참가비는 국내 참가자의 경우 30만원, 해외 참가자의 경우 $500이며, 교재, 다과, 종강 저녁식사 및 현장 방문을 포함합니다. 기숙사가 필요한 경우, 그 비용은 별도입니다. 참가가 확정된 분들께는 참가비 납부 방법 안내를 보내드립니다.

장학금

참가비를 내기 어려운 형편의 참가자의 경우, 심사하여 본 강좌에 대한 참가비와 항공비 및 기숙사 비용의 일부를 지원하고자 합니다. 장학금 지원을 희망하는 사람은 신청서(장학금 지원서 양식 다운로드)를 작성하여, 참가지원을 위해 필요한 다른 서류와 함께 서울대 인권센터로 보내주시기 바랍니다.

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