"In the coming months, a number of elections will be held in well-established democracies, with dangerous xenophobes and bigots running for office, and what falls to us then could begin to determine, as never before, the future course of 'we the peoples' of this earth," Hussein said, as quoted in a statement by his office.
According to the UN Human Rights office, the discussion of xenophobia and discrimination will be added to the agenda of the UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants slated for next week.
In a statement published last week Hussein likened the rhetoric used by US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, former UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage and French National Front Party leader Marine Le Pen to that of Islamic State, a terrorist organization outlawed in Russia and many other countries. The UN Human Rights chief called these and many other politicians "populists, demagogues and political fantasists" whose propaganda is based on inciting hatred for a certain group of people.
