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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
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Including the annual report of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance for
2001 CRI(2002)19.
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