“Don’t forget your culture. If you lose your culture, you lose your identity. If you lose your identity, you don’t know where to go, ”--Armando Crisanto Melendez, Garifuna tradition bearer from Honduras
“Don’t forget your culture. If you lose your culture, you lose your identity. If you lose your identity, you don’t know where to go, ”--Armando Crisanto Melendez, Garifuna tradition bearer from Honduras
On March 15, the United Nations General Assembly voted 170–4 to create a new Human Rights Council, effectively dissolving the oft-criticized Commission on Human Rights. Candidates for the Council will need to be elected by an absolute majority of 96 votes in order to secure a position, and once elected members can serve a maximum of two consecutive terms.