Massey Lecture Part 3 | Human rights don’t have to be earned
Mar 13, 2026•1 hr 5 min
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Episode description
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.’ Visit cbc.ca/masseys for more on this lecture series.
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