MASSEY LECTURE ONE: Renewing the promise of human rights

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LISTEN: MASSEY LECTURE ONE: "Renewing the promise of human rights"

November 17, 2025 - 1 hour, 4 minutes

Universality is the core promise of human rights: these rights extend to everyone, everywhere. But above all else, this is where we have failed. In his first CBC Massey Lecture, Alex Neve explores how to ensure the “lifeboat” of human rights is seaworthy for everyone.

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LISTEN: MASSEY LECTURE TWO: The six years that remade human rights

CBC Radio - IDEAS - November 18, 2025 - 1 hour, 3 minutes

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.

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