in various communities, providing care through cultural workshops, designed to encourage them and their parents to build new living and thought patterns through art. 263.Another important programme is medicine and health, in coordination with the Ministry of Health of the Federal District, which aims to keep adolescent inmates in good medical health at the various stages of treatment. 264.Furthermore, the various bodies and authorities that make up the juvenile justice system perform their duties in compliance with established procedures and respecting the human rights of young people in conflict with the law, without stigmatizing or victimizing them or regarding them as mere objects to be controlled. This same criterion is applied in deciding punitive measures and in seeking a protective measure or a change of measure. 265.The state of Mexico has introduce the technical guide for determin ing age, which uses scientific criteria and objective clinical elements for minors involved in legal proceedings, protecting their rights recognized under international treaties and with full respect for their individual guarantees, with the prior informed consent of their parents, guardians or legal representatives, to channel them into the specialized juvenile justice system. Ensure that parents of minors in the custody of the state of Mexico are notified through appropriate channels of communication of their children’s whereabouts (para. 254) Compliance measures 266.The "Quinta del Bosque" school for social reintegration of adolescents was opened in Zinacantepec in the state of Mexico. The school holds minors in custodial placements, its first task being to inform their parents so that they can visit. 267.The government of Mexico state has nevertheless instructed the director of the school to continue providing information to families of minors deprived of their liberty. State government staff make regular visits to the school to ensure that it is providing proper instruction. Make every possible effort to ensure that indigenous peoples have differentiated access to justice, especially at the stages of legal proceedings in which they are at greatest risk of defencelessness and harm to their physical and mental integrity (para. 258) Compliance measures 268.The Attorney for the Defence of Indigenous Peoples in the state of Oaxaca has instructed public defenders, in addition to monitoring the proceedings, to provide indigenous persons where necessary with an interpreter or translator to avoid their being undefended; they should also assert indigenous regulations to take account of their culture, language, habitat and other circumstances specific to such peoples, and are accordingly being instructed in human rights. 269.In the Federal District, the Attorney-General’s Office has issued the following decisions for handling suspects in judicial proceedings, particularly where they belong to specific groups in vulnerable situations: Decision A/010/2003 laying down guidelines for the actions of public prosecutors who are conducting a preliminary investigation, in which a person is being detained or is involved who belongs to an indigenous people or community. Among other things, the decision considers the rights enshrined in Convention 169 of the International Labour Organization concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries, the General Act on Linguistic Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the constitutional provisions guaranteeing the rights of indigenous peoples to the respect of their customs and specific cultural aspects during trials and proceedings to which they are party. 270.The principal rights covered by the decision are as follows: " One. – When conducting preliminary investigations involving anyone belonging to an indigenous people or community or unable adequately to speak or understand the Spanish language or at the request of that indigenous person, public prosecutors assigned to the central public prosecution services and regional offices of public security and administration of justice are instructed to take the necessary steps to inform them, as quickly as possible, of their rights under the Constitution and the law , proceeding as follows: I. When the indigenous language is unknown, in a friendly spirit, the public prosecutor shall attempt to identify the indigenous language by immediately play ing the audio material provided by the National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples called "What language do you speak?". Once the indigenous language spoken by the person involved in the investigation has been identified, or if it cannot be recognized, he shall apply to Organización de Traductores e Intérpretes Interculturales y Gestores en Lenguas Indígenas A. C. (Organization of Intercultural Translators and Interpreters and Managers of Indigenous Languages) for identification and transla tion services by telephoning 55 26 42 00 or 55 29 43 86 and by fax on the official form. To increase the likelihood of the public prosecutor be ing assisted by a translator or interpreter in the indigenous language, the National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples provides a directory of translators and interpreters in indigenous languages. II. Whe re the indigenous person is a suspect in the preliminary investigation, the public prosecutor shall ask the above-