The ideals behind the concept of human rights — such as the sacredness of life, reciprocity, justice and fairness — have millennia-old histories. After the carnage of the Second World War and the Holocaust, these ideas took a new legal form. In his second Massey Lecture, Alex Neve considers six dizzying years that laid out a blueprint for a new world. Lecture two of the 2025 CBC Massey Lecture series: Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World Speaker Alex Neve Secretary-General of Amnesty International Canada (2000 to 2020); adjunct Professor in international human rights, University of Ottawa, Human rights lawyer Author of Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World

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The six years that remade human rights (2025 CBC Massey Lecture 2)

MAR 24, 202654 MIN
Big Ideas

The six years that remade human rights (2025 CBC Massey Lecture 2)

MAR 24, 202654 MIN

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<p>The ideals behind the concept of human rights — such as the sacredness of life, reciprocity, justice and fairness — have millennia-old histories. After the carnage of the Second World War and the Holocaust, these ideas took a new legal form. In his second Massey Lecture, Alex Neve considers six dizzying years that laid out a blueprint for a new world.</p><p>Lecture two of the<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/books/universal-by-alex-neve-1.7555966"> 2025 CBC Massey Lecture series</a>: <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/cbc-2025-massey-lectures-alex-neve-9.6974336">Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World</a></p><p>Speaker</p><p><a href="https://www.uottawa.ca/faculty-law/common-law/faculty/alex-neve">Alex Neve</a>Secretary-General of Amnesty International Canada (2000 to 2020); adjunct Professor in international human rights, University of Ottawa, Human rights lawyerAuthor of Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World</p>