Fashion brands ignore ‘endemic’ abuse of Syrian refugees in Turkey: watchdog

By Timothy Large LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Big fashion brands are failing to protect Syrian refugees from “endemic” abuse in Turkish clothing factories supplying European retailers, a monitoring group said on Tuesday. Child labor, pitiful pay and dangerous conditions are among the risks facing undocumented Syrian refugees working in Turkey’s garment industry, according to the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre. The London-based charity surveyed 38 major brands with Turkish factories in their supply chains on steps they are taking to protect vulnerable refugee workers from exploitation.

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Man writes letter to editor about yoga pants; women take to the streets

By Elly Park BARRINGTON, R.I. (Reuters) – A male reader who sent a letter to a small Rhode Island newspaper criticizing women who wear yoga pants in public found that snug-fitting pants were the least of his problems as hundreds of people picketed his home and thousands rebuked him on social media. Alan Sorrentino, 63, in a letter to the Barrington Times – a newspaper which says it has a print circulation of 5,000 – described yoga pants as “stinky, tacky, ridiculous looking.” “They do nothing to compliment a woman over 20 years old,” he wrote in the letter, which was published on Wednesday. Sorrentino told a Providence radio station, WPRO, that he had received death threats, and he compared the threats to those he had received in the past as an openly gay man.

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