A/57/204 lost from view, since they affect millions of people who are daily subjected to the horrors of discriminatory treatment. The Durban Declaration and Programme of Action contain all the elements necessary for a mobilization of efforts and the taking of effective action against the evils concerned. It is our duty to ensure that the text does not remain a dead letter but instead becomes living testimony of the steadfastness of the international community’s struggle against such archaisms in the twenty-first century as racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. It is imperative that everyone everywhere, without any distinction, through education and in all humility, should internalize human rights, especially the equal dignity of the human person, and should practise them in his or her daily life in social relationships, at both the national and the international levels. Notes 1 Including the annual report of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance for 2001 CRI(2002)19. 11