Alex Neve

Robert Alexander Neve, OC (born May 24 1962cite book|title=Canadian Who's Who|publisher=University of Toronto Press|year=2004|page=965] ) is a Canadian human rights activist and the Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada. Neve has been a member of Amnesty International since the mid 1980s and has worked for the organization nationally and internationally in a number of different roles, including missions to Tanzania, Guinea, Mexico, Burundi, Chad, Colombia, Honduras, Zimbabwe, Côte d'Ivoire, South Africa and Ghana.cite web |url=http://www.yorku.ca/crs/AHRDP/Conference/profile.htm |title=Profiles of Conference Facilitators |accessdate=2007-12-29 |work=Human Rights Defenders Conference |publisher=African Human Rights Defenders Project-Canada] [cite web |url=http://osgoode.yorku.ca/media2.nsf/58912001c091cdc8852569300055bbf9/87c2741190074d1a852570b60077c914!OpenDocument |title=Speakers Profile |accessdate=2008-02-25 |date=2005-11-16 |work=Putting Theory To Practice Public Lecture, Osgoode Law School |publisher=]

Born in Calgary, Alberta, the son of Robert Rex Neve and Jean Elizabeth Taylor, Neve received a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1984 and a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1987 from Dalhousie University. In 1991, he received a Master of Law degree from the University of Essex in International Human Rights law. He is married to Patricia Goyeche and they have three children.

Neve is a lawyer who practised law in Toronto with a focus in the areas of refugee and immigration law. He has been affiliated with the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University and has taught international human rights and refugee law at Osgoode Hall Law School. He has authored and contributed many reports and studies for Amnesty International as well as legal submissions to parliamentary committees and United Nations human rights bodies, including the Maher Arar Commission. He regularly lectures, participates in conferences, and speaks and writes in the national media on a range of human rights topics. [cite web |url=http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~cforcese/hrat/participants.pdf |title=Confirmed Participants |accessdate=2007-12-29 |date=2006-06-12 |work=The Human Rights of Anti-Terrorism: A colloquium |publisher=] Before taking on the role of secretary general in January 2000, he served as a member of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.

On December 28 2007, Neve was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada, in honour of his human rights work. [cite web |url=http://www.gg.ca/media/doc.asp?lang=e&DocID=5252 |title=Governor General Announces New Appointments to the Order of Canada |accessdate=2007-12-29 |date=2007-12-28 |publisher=Governor General of Canada]

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