14 Culture has an annual budget of 100,000,000FBu for its various activities. The Provinces and the Districts endeavour to manage as best they can. A small budget line allocated under « arts and culture » serves, for instance, for the purchase of uniforms for the dancers, the actors or the tambourin players. In the area of infrastructure Burundi has 16 Reading Centres distributed across the country. Regarding Libraries, there is a Department of Archives and a National Library. It had been established by the Decree n° 100/174 of 20 September 1989 with specific responsibilities. The country adopted a « National Cultural Policy » for the promotion of the cultural identity. The Ministry responsible for Culture regularly organizes socio-cultural competitions at the national level and all the national Groups have the opportunity to interact, the Batwa 1 included. It has already adopted the Convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions and has ratified the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Convention on the World, Cultural and Natural Heritage. Research on the cultural heritage of the Batwa is already being carried out in three Provinces of the country. 10. Restrictions on the recognized and guaranteed freedoms The National Constitution which is currently in force devotes an entire Chapter (Chapter 2) to the Charter on fundamental, and Individual’s and Citizen’s Rights and Responsibilities. Thus in Burundi, the restriction or the repeal of fundamental rights is prohibited except under certain circumstances which are justifiable by the general interest or by the protection of a fundamental right. It is in this context that Article 19 stipulates that: « The Rights and Responsibilities proclaimed and guaranteed, among others, by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Human Rights Conventions, the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child constitute an integral part of the Constitution of the Republic of Burundi. These fundamental Rights are under no restriction or exemption, except in certain circumstances justifiable by the general interest or for reasons of the protection of a fundamental right ». 11. The creation of a National Human Rights Commission 1 The Batwa are a minority ethnic group in Burundi