A/HRC/17/38/Add.1 The National System of Culture 36. The National System of Culture was created by the NPC to promote and integrate cultural polices adopted by the Federal Government, the states and municipalities. It aims to decentralize and organize the cultural development of Brazil to ensure the continuity of all projects in the field of culture. The Ministry of Culture, through its Institutional Coordination Secretariat, has prepared a proposal, including directives and priority actions, to implement the system. It has also developed an information system for indicators. C. National institutional framework 1. Culture-specific institutions and the protection of cultural rights 37. The Secretariat of Identity and Cultural Diversity, created in 2003 as part of the Ministry of Culture, implements the Identity and Cultural Diversity - Plural Brazil programme which seeks to ensure access by groups and networks of cultural producers to support and promotion mechanisms, and to cultural exchanges between regions and groups in Brazil, taking into consideration factors such as gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and popular culture. 38. The Ministry of Science and Technology is tasked with implementing national policies in the areas of science, technology, and innovation, including policies for computer science and digitalization, national bio-security, and the control of exports of sensitive goods and services. Additionally, it plans, coordinates, supervises, and controls scientific and technological activities. 39. The Secretariat of Science and Technology for Social Inclusion, created in 2002, implements the national programme for digital inclusion which, together with the Living Culture programme (Cultura Viva), supports initiatives for the exchange of cultural manifestations in the form of audio, audiovisual, photographic and digital multimedia materials. 2. Other relevant institutions 40. Several institutions at the federal level are relevant for the promotion and protection of cultural rights. At the policy level, these include the Secretariat for Human Rights, the Secretariat for Policies on Women, and the Secretariat on Strategic Affairs, all of which coordinate and implement policies, plans and programmes within their respective mandates to mainstream the promotion of culture and cultural rights-related issues. 41. The independent expert wishes to draw attention to four institutions that have the potential to play a crucial role in redressing violations to cultural rights. These are the Council for the Defence of the Rights of the Human Person (CDDPH)10, the Federal Attorney General's Office for Citizens' Rights, the Secretariat of Policies for the Promotion of Racial Equality (SEPPIR), and the Palmares Foundation. 42. The CDDHP, a collective body associated with the Ministry of Justice, is entrusted with the promotion and protection of human rights in Brazil. Some of its functions are human rights' awareness-raising and capacity-building activities, receiving and investigating complaints, together with other authorities, of grave and massive human rights violations and ensuring the accountability of perpetrators. 10 10 Law 4.319 of 16 March 1964.