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Massey Lecture 2: The six years that remade human rights
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 01:03:31
Publish Date: 2025-11-18 05:10:00
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The ideals behind the concept of human rights — such as the sacredness of life, reciprocity, justice and fairness — have millennia-old histories. After the carnage of the Second World War and the Holocaust, these ideas took a new legal form. In his second Massey Lecture, Alex Neve considers six dizzying years that laid out a blueprint for a new world. Visit cbc.ca/masseys for more on the series.
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