for the Defence, Protection and Promotion of Human Rights. 55. On the subject of the protection of the family, he said that the Colombian Family Welfare Institute was responsible for protecting minors and administered a network of day care centres. It ran or subsidized centres providing care for deserted minors, adoption homes and the substitute home system. It offered legal assistance to low-income families, particularly deserted mothers, supervised the payment of maintenance allowances to youths below the age of 18 from broken families or born out of wedlock, sought recognition for children born out of wedlock, and protected deserted children or those in physical or moral danger or physically or mentally handicapped. In addition, the Institute proposed measures to the Ministry of Labour and the Congress aimed at protecting children and adolescents against economic exploitation, to which minors were often exposed through hardship or poverty. In order to monitor the situation and prevent abuse, Colombia had Act No. 20 of 1982 and the Minors' Code, which had been promulgated in November 1989. 56. The aims of the programmes implemented by the Colombian Government for the benefit of the most disadvantaged groups, and particularly the Plan for the Elimination of Absolute Poverty, were in line with the objectives of article 11 of the Covenant. The programmes were aimed at creating jobs, protecting children and reinforcing the institution of the family, developing communities through the involvement of urban populations, protecting the elderly and preventing drug addiction and alcoholism amongst adolescents. 57. As far as the housing problem was concerned, the Government had drawn up a programme of low-cost housing construction and subsidies for deprived urban areas, which consisted in selling families cheap building land that had already been connected to the water and electricity supplies, sewers and 
**Analysis**
The text discusses the efforts of the Colombian Government to protect and promote human rights, particularly in the areas of family welfare, poverty alleviation, and housing. The measures mentioned are aimed at improving the living conditions of vulnerable groups, such as children, adolescents, and the elderly. This suggests that the category most fitting for this text is likely to be related to social welfare and human rights.

**Category**
Health, Education, Employment, Humanitarian aid and relief