CBC Massey Lectures: Alex Neve on Human Rights

2025 CBC Massey Lectures: Alex Neve on renewing human rights
in a fractured world

When we overcome doubt by making human rights real, we can
prevail, says Canadian lawyer

This is not the finest hour for human rights, says 2025 CBC
Massey Lecturer Alex Neve. But it still could be.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was created 1948,
after the untold carnage and horror of the Second World War.
It was supposed to prevent what we're seeing right now: the
rise of hate and mass atrocities. A crumbling world order.
Human rights applied selectively, or withdrawn on the whims
of political leaders.

In five lectures delivered across Canada, Neve explores where
the promise of universal human rights comes from, where
we've fallen short, and what we can do now to renew the
promise of universality.

A five minutes introduction, and the five hour-long lectures are
available at https://tinyurl.com/2fv8ya7z .

The lectures are:
Lecture 1: The beacon of universal human rights
Lecture 2: Human rights lessons from history
Lecture 3: Human rights are not earned
Lecture 4: Human rights made real
Lecture 5: Renewing Canada’s commitment to universal human rights

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