<p>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. <em>Visit </em><a href="cbc.ca/masseys" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>cbc.ca/masseys</em></a><em> for more on the series. </em></p>