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Alex Neve is a lawyer, with a Masters Degree in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. He has served as Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada’s English branch since 2000. Show full bio
Syria’s Repression Spills Outside its Borders
The unwillingness and inability of the world community for many months now to take a strong stand against the deepening human rights catastrophe in Syria has been a source of…
Canadian Reflections on A Decade of Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism
It is a somber anniversary. Ten years ago nearly 3000 people from 90 countries were killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks – on the four planes, in the Twin…
Tunisia: Time to Put Human Rights First
After so many years, indeed decades, of unrelenting repression the dizzying speed of change in Tunisia over the past week has defied belief. There has been much hope and inspiration…
Omar Khadr Case Wraps Up: Nobody Wins
What a despairing week at Guantánamo Bay, watching Omar Khadr journey through the last layers of military injustice he has been trapped within for many years. In a stunningly punitive…
Omar Khadr. Is There a Path to Justice
A week of the military commission trial in the case of the United States vs Omar Khadr has just wrapped up. And no one would have ever predicted where we’ve…
Policing the G20 Summit: Whose Security? Whose Human Rights?
The debate about security and human rights is not just about insidious practices like extraordinary rendition and infamous prison camps like Guantánamo Bay. It is not only about the tension…
No Second-Guessing and No Independence: Reflections from Omar Khadr’s Military Commission Hearings
It is not my role to “second-guess” military authorities here as to the security measures they feel need to be put in place. With these words, Judge Patrick Parrish, who…
From 2002 to 2010: Canada Must End Complicity in Torture
When Canada’s Parliament resumes in just over two weeks time, there is expected to be considerable debate about two issues that have become emblematic of the worrying ways that human…
A New Decade Opens: Where do we Stand with Security and Human Rights?
The years are certainly passing for some of the key milestones in the debate about security and human rights that has raged over the past decade. As such, as we…
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