Alex Neve is an international human rights lawyer and professor. He will deliver the 2025 CBC Massey Lectures and is the author of Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World. On a February day in 2019, I found myself in a small, immaculately kept shelter in an overcrowded Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh. It was home to Mohammed Salim, his wife and their four young children, and his wife’s elderly parents. They had fled genocidal violence in Myanmar and had seen family members killed in front of them. There were no foreseeable prospects of being able to return home,...