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Alex Neve: Renewing human rights in a fractured world
Join CBC’s 2025 Massey Lecturer Alex Neve for a discussion of his book Universal, hosted by Ottawa University’s Human Rights Research and Education Centre in partnership with the Centre for International Policy Studies.
At a time of a deepening climate crisis, genocide and mass atrocities, and the rapid rise of hate and divisiveness around the world, his five lectures explored what we need to collectively do to renew and strengthen the vital promise of universal human rights. Marking International Human Rights Day, Alex’s talk will offer an overview of the lectures, including the fractured state of our world and a hopeful way forward. He will be joined by four other members of the uOttawa community, reflecting on what universality means in their human rights work and studies:
- Mayyu Ali – Rohingya refugee, poet and human rights defender
- Anne Levesque – Holder of the Gordon F. Henderson Chair in Human Rights & Associate Professor, French Common Law Program, Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, University of Ottawa
- Valeria Navarette – Master’s degree candidate, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), University of Ottawa
Alex Neve is a visiting and adjunct professor in international human rights law at the University of Ottawa and Dalhousie University, and a Senior Fellow with the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. He served as Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada from 2000 – 2020. He is a lawyer, with a Master’s Degree in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex. Alex is an Officer of the Order of Canada. He has honorary doctorate of law degrees from the University of New Brunswick, the University of Waterloo and St. Thomas University.