Time: 2:45 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: : Evered Hall, Student Union Building
*Please note the updated location.
Where do we – our community, our country, and our world – stand on the project of human rights? How can we ensure that the aspiration of a universal human rights system is realized? What can and must we as individuals, in our everyday lives, do to promote not only our human rights, but those of others – those with whom we share space but also strangers half a world away?
Join us this October 9 for a timely conversation with 2025 CBC Massey Lecturer Alex Neve and UFV Assistant Professor Mark Kersten on these and other themes. At a time when optimism and hope is much needed but often in short supply, Alex will provide insights and lessons from his years on the front lines of human rights advocacy. The conversation will explore critical human rights questions and challenges in the region, across Canada, and the world to explore the responsibility we all have to do our part to universalize our rights and the rights others. And the difference we can make when we do so.
“Alex Neve“ believes in a world in which the human rights of all people are protected. He is presently a visiting and adjunct professor in international human rights law with the Faculties of Law and Social Sciences 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’s English Branch from 2000 – 2020. In that role he led and took part in over forty human rights research and advocacy delegations throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America, Guantánamo Bay and, closer to home, First Nations communities in Canada. Alex is a lawyer, with an LLB from Dalhousie University and a Master’s Degree in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex. He has served as a member of the Immigration and Refugee Board, taught at Osgoode Hall Law School, been affiliated with York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies, and worked as a refugee lawyer in private practice and in a community legal aid clinic.
Alex is the Chair of Canadian Leadership for Nuclear Disarmament and the Canadian Coalition on Human Rights in China, serves on the Board of Directors of the Centre for Law and Democracy, is a Fellow with the Atlantic Human Rights Centre and is a Principal Researcher with the University of Ottawa’s Centre for International Policy Studies. Alex has been named an Officer of the Order of Canada and served as a Trudeau Foundation Mentor. He is a recipient of a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. He has received honorary Doctorate of Laws degrees from St. Thomas University, the University of Waterloo and the University of New Brunswick. Alex is the 2025 CBC Massey Lecturer, addressing the theme of Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured.
The event is free and open to everyone.
Event Location : Evered Hall, Student Union Building
Location update: Alex Neve | From Near to Far: Making Universal Human Rights Just That: Universal
Date(s): Thursday, October 9Time: 2:45 pm - 5:00 pm
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