Alex Neve - Our Failure to Provide Universal Human Rights

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/masseys-2025-announce-alex-neve-1.7553810?cmp=newsletter_CBC%20Books_14559_1947582 

To Alex Neve, the core promise behind human rights is that they are applied universally: to everyone, everywhere, at all times, without exception.

But in this year's Massey Lectures, he argues that while universality is the noblest promise we can afford our fellow human beings, it's also the area where we have most gravely failed.

"I think everyone would acknowledge and recognize we live in a world where human rights are not at all delivered and enjoyed universally. So it gives us a chance to explore what the promise is all about, but also where we have come up so terribly short," Neve told IDEAS' Tom Howell.