E/CN.4/2002/24 page 35 77. Germany has recently established a new human rights institute. On 7 December 2000, the German Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) resolved to establish an independent, publicly-funded German Institute for Human Rights to be based in Berlin. The statute of the Institute refers specifically to the “Paris principles” (the Principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights), and its mandate covers international and national human rights issues, including public and private sector issues. The Institute will focus on (a) information and documentation; (b) research; (c) advisory services to State authorities and NGOs; (d) human rights education; (e) promoting dialogue between NGOs and State organs; and (f) cooperation with international organizations. The Institute is presently composed of a founding committee of nine individuals, including four NGO representatives, one representative of the academic community (who is also a member of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), two members of Parliament, one media representative and the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Federal Ministry of Justice. “It will have a board of 16 members: 4 federal government representatives acting in an advisory capacity and 12 members with voting rights, including: 1 representative from the German Science Council, 3 NGO representatives, 2 government members from the Committee for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, 1 representative from the Office of the Federal Government’s Commissioner for Foreigners Issues, and 5 representatives initially nominated by the founding committee and later to be selected by the assembly of all members of association. It is anticipated that the Institute will begin its work in early 2002.” 78. While welcoming the progress achieved by Germany in action to combat racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia, the Special Rapporteur, who is happy to have taken part in the anti-racist programme organized by the city of Nürenberg in September 2001 as a follow-up measure to the Durban Conference, sincerely hopes that the Government’s efforts will lead to the enactment of the law to combat racial discrimination, as promised on the occasion of his visit to Germany in 1995. Such a law would reflect, in the legal sphere, the extensive mobilization of the German Government and people in action to combat racism and all forms of racial discrimination and xenophobia. B. Brazil 79. Following his visit to Brazil in June 1995 the Special Rapporteur submitted a report to the Commission on Human Rights at its fifty-second session and presented his recommendations regarding the eradication of racism and racial discrimination in Brazil (E/CN.4/1996/72/Add.1). In subsequent reports to the Commission at its fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth sessions (E/CN.4/1998/79 and E/CN.4/1999/15), the Special Rapporteur highlighted some of the measures adopted by the Brazilian Government to implement his recommendations. Information compiled under this section is aimed at informing the Commission of actions taken in the last two years by the Brazilian Government to arrive at a better analysis of racial discrimination and its elimination in various sectors. 80. In the last two years, measures against discriminatory practices in employment and occupation have mainly been adopted by the Ministry of Labour, through the Executive Working Group for the Elimination of Discrimination in Employment and Occupation and with the