Human Rights don't have to be earned (2025 CBC Massey lecture 3)

Our inherent human rights belong to us from the moment we are born. There is nothing we need to do to earn them, and they are supposed to apply to us until the day we die. But in his third Massey Lecture, Alex Neve argues the powerful have made human rights a ‘club.’ Lecture three 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