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About Alex Neve
- Robert Alexander Neve, OC (born May 24, 1962) is a Canadian human rights activist and the secretary general of Amnesty International Canada. 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.
- A few years later, he went to England to study international human rights law, receiving a master of law degree from the University of Essex in 1991.
- He is married to Patricia Goyeche and they have three children. Neve practised law in Ottawa with a focus in the areas of refugee and immigration law.
- He 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, South Sudan, and Ghana.
- In Toronto, 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.
- Before taking on the role of secretary general in January 2000, he served as a member of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.
- Within Canada, Neve has also been involved with the issue of Alberta's Lubicon Cree.
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