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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Event: Alex Neve
DESCRIPTION:Alex Neve: Universal\nIn his decades-long experience fighting for human rights, Alex Neve has seen the failures and moments of progress for universal human rights—and what humanity can do to fulfill their promise. This fall, he will deliver the 2025 Massey Lectures across Canada, exploring the importance of universal human rights in this era of immense global challenges.\nAlex Neve will discuss his book and lectures Universal with journalist Andrea Crossan, executive director of the Global Reporting Centre.\nAlex Neve is a Canadian-based international human rights lawyer. He is the former secretary general for Amnesty International in Canada and a former member of Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board. He is a commissioner with the Ottawa People’s Commission on the Convoy Occupation and an adjunct professor teaching in the area of international human rights with the law faculties at the University of Ottawa and Dalhousie University.\nAndrea Crossan is a member of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. She is an award-winning radio journalist with over 30 years of experience, reporting from over a dozen countries, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Ukraine, South Africa, Uganda, and Brazil. She is currently the executive director of the Global Reporting Centre (GRC), an independent news organization based out of UBC.\n**Please note, this event is online only and will not take place at the library**\n_________________________________________________________\nFor the third year in a row, BC’s public libraries are hosting a virtual author series to bring new insights and voices to library users in every corner of British Columbia: BC Libraries Present. Public libraries are known as centres of dialogue on many important ideas in their communities. To build upon that role, Public Library InterLINK has brought together many libraries, both big and small, to host these events and provide access to award-winning authors to library users across the province.\nFor the third season of this series, the topic is upheaval. This year has been marked by tariffs, trade wars, and international conflicts that are destabilizing economies and political systems worldwide. The advent of artificial intelligence is adding to a wave of technological changes that are disrupting the way we work, how we communicate, and our ability to discern truth from propaganda and disinformation.\nAll events are hosted on the BC Libraries Present Crowdcast channel: crowdcast.io/@bclibraries-present ( https://www.crowdcast.io/@bclibraries-present )\nBC Libraries Present is a project of BC’s public library federations with the generous financial support of the Province of British Columbia through the Ministry of Municipal Affairs.\n
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