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Refugee Camp Statistics, the Prison Pen Pal Debate, Being Thin

What is the average length of stay in a refugee camp? Should violent and sexual offenders be allowed to use a prisoner pen pal website? And, why do people want to be thin?

What is the average length of stay in a refugee camp? It is regularly reported that it is 17 years, but is this true and how difficult or useful is it to make such a calculation? More Or Less reports.

Robert Torres is serving four consecutive life sentences for four counts of aggravated rape. Lori Williams, one of his victims, was alarmed to find him advertising for a romantic relationship on a prisoner pen pal website. She started a petition to outlaw the practise for violent and sexual offenders in Texas, and was overwhelmed with support from the public online.

And, as their country faces a tomato shortage, lots of Nigerians have taken to Twitter to complain about the 100 tonnes of tomatoes wasted every year in Spain鈥檚 Tomatina festival. 成人快手 Trending talks to both sides.

For thousands of years, a thin body was a sign of poverty or disease. But there is now a growing, global obsession with being thin. And this at a time when many populations around the world are, paradoxically, suffering epidemics of obesity. Mike Williams finds out why, as he speaks to former French model Victoire Macon Dauxerre, Tony Glenville from the London College of Fashion, Anne Becker from Harvard Medical School, professor John Speakman from University of Aberdeen and Etta Edim from Nigeria鈥檚 Efik tribe.

(Photo: An Afghan woman carries laundry in a refugee camp in Malakasa. Credit: Milos Bicanski/Getty Images)

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  • Thu 2 Jun 2016 08:06GMT
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