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Mexico City, Mexico: No dolls can be burned that resemble prominent personalities.
Australia: It is illegal to roam the streets wearing black clothes,felt shoes and black shoe polish on your face as these items are the tools of a cat burglar.
Canada: It is illegal to kill a sick person by frighteningthem.
China: To go to college you must be intelligent.
France: No pig may be addressed as Napoleon by its owner.
Chester, UK:You can only shoot a Welsh person with abow and arrow inside the city walls and after midnight.
Maine,USA: You may not step out of a plane in flight.
New York,USA: The penalty for jumping off a building is death.
Pennsylvania,USA: It is illegal to sleep on top of a refrigerator outdoors.
Utah,USA: It is illegal to cause a catastrophe.


Fact: Africa’s lakes are declining rapidly, with climate change and over-use being the major factors. There are about 677 lakes in Africa holding a total of 30,000 cubic kilometres of water – the largest stored volume of any continent.

The shocking report by ITV News exposed the tragedy of Kids Behind Bars and launched our campaign to bring change. Reporter Chris Rogers reveals what he discovered when he returned to the Philippines six months later.


Chris Rogers with Edwin and the prison warden on
the day the 13-year old youth was released.The images of hundreds of Philippine child prisoners held in horrendously overcrowded jails sent shock waves around the globe and forced the Government to promise swift action. The pressure intensified when I was summoned before the US Congress at a Hearing organised by Jubilee Campaign in Washington to testify on what I had seen first hand. Six months later, I returned to the Philippines to see what had changed – only to discover another scandal. Prison cell after prison cell of broken lives and broken promises. We found young faces still behind bars, hungry, exhausted and terrified. We uncovered the ongoing abuse. In one jail, the warden told us he was ordered to separate children from adult inmates but a tiny crammed cell was the only alternative. He said he hates his job. The children were stacked like farm animals on to shelves three storeys high. There wasn’t enough room to stand up and even sitting down they had to crouch. As I handed out food, I felt like I was feeding caged animals. I spotted 13-year old Carlo. Last year we filmed him in another jail, but he’d been released after three months. Now he’s behind bars once again, this time accused of stealing a bucket of fish. He told me the children are allowed out of the cell to exercise for just one hour a week.

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In 1845 an eight-year-old boy was brought to trial at the August sessions in Clerkenwell near St.Pancras.  His name was Thomas Miller and he had been caught ‘stealing boxes’. For this crime the boy was sentenced to a month in jail – and he was whipped. 

In fairness it has to be said that in Victorian England there were only a few children under the age of 10 in prison, though the number of young criminals in jail aged more than 10 rises steeply.  In the early years of the century all criminals were more or less thrown together in the common jail regardless of crime or age.  But change was in the air and concern was rising over the rapid increase of petty crime.  The first significant move came in 1823, when laws were introduced that provided separate lock-ups for those awaiting trial and the convicted and hardened criminals. Then it was recognized that a distinction should be made between the habitual and the casual criminal.  Separate prisons were designated.  We must assume that Thomas spent his month in the company of other casual criminals awaiting trial and not with the hardened convicts. 

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Anita Rodick - Why I want to give my money away!

AC What is the connection between The Body Shop and American horses?

AR My husband wanted to ride a horse from Buenos Aires to New York - as crazy Scots do. The kids were young, three and five, so opening up the first Body Shop was for survival. Women are very good at taking the initiative and moulding it into a livelihood and that’s what I did.

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