working week because of the exigencies of their work and lack of sufficient financial resources.E/1986/3/Add.l3 page 21 E/1986/3/Add.l3 page 22 97. All these assistance services include board and lodging, clothing, medical attention, educational and recreational activities, social work and legal help. 98. For the most unprotected children in Mexico, with major problems of food and nutrition, the DIF established a Special Children's Programme. 99. This Programme covers children under four years of age, children in the womb and nurslings in the poorest rural areas and in the underprivileged areas of cities in several States. 100. Its objectives are to distribute dried unskimmed milk, to give nutritional education to mothers in regard to making use of the available resources for feeding their children and to people to grow food for their own consumption. 101. The Penal Code contains a large variety of provisions designed to protect minors against economic and social exploitation and abandonment, to prevent them being the object of traffic in persons and to safeguard the persons and dignity of children and yoimg people. In this respect offences which the Penal Code specifies are the corruption of minors, procuring, indecent assault, debauchery, rape, abduction, incest, physical injury, homicide, infanticide, genocide, abandonment, illegal deprivation of liberty and offences against the civil status of individuals. 102. As far as the procedural position is concerned, criminal law, through the Federal Fixndamental Act on the Judiciary and the new Fundamental Acts of the Office of the Attorney-General of the Republic and of the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federal District, reiterates that the Public Prosecutor's Department, as amicus curiae, shall have the task of watching over the interests of minors, within the limits laid down by the law, by intervening in civil or family cases to which said minors are party or in which their interests may be in any way affected.
**Analysis**
The text appears to be focused on the welfare and protection of children in Mexico, discussing programs and laws aimed at providing assistance, nutrition, and legal protection to vulnerable minors. The language used is formal and official, suggesting a government or institutional context. The topics mentioned, such as health, nutrition, education, and legal protection, are all related to the well-being and development of children.

**Category**
Health, Humanitarian aid and relief