Braverman’s bid to leave the ECHR is the latest hostility to modern slavery survivors
In a recent interview on BBC’s Radio 4’s Today, Home Secretary Suella Braverman stated her wish that the U.K. leave the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), calling it “a politicized court,” “interventionist,” and “treading on the territory of national sovereignty.” This move would be the latest in a series of recent measures shredding the rights of modern slavery survivors. Freedom from slavery and forced labor goes “out the