 This declaration is the vow of the international community to fight against inhumane treatment and injustice, and to work for the protection of every people's rights. It is a vow to assert the inherent dignity and equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family, yet today the widespread nature of human rights violations makes a mockery of their commitment to the UDHR. To many, too many states seem to be abandoning their core commitments. The alarming but steady increase of hate and xenophobic rhetoric around the world continues to reinforce discrimination against vulnerable groups. Seventy years after the UDHR, the intensification of these discourses is extremely worrying, with the widespread enthusiasm in different parts of the world for populist movements embracing racist and xenophobic hatred. There is a strong political incentive for many populist leaders, and increasingly for mainstream political parties, to divert attention from the real issues, such as economic and social policies and structures that have led to recession, inequalities and higher levels of precarity worldwide. The world cannot afford to ignore any dimension of the problem of racism, xenophobia and related intolerance, and especially not the forces that do the effective work of structurally subordinating groups on the singular or intersecting basis of their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation or citizenship status. The time for action is now. Stand up for human rights, stand up for all equal rights. If you wish to get in touch with regards to racial discriminations, xenophobia or related intolerance, please contact me at racism at OHCHR.org.