UK rolling back efforts to tackle modern slavery, charity says

Reclassifying modern slavery as immigration issue and rhetoric of abusing the system' are among concerns levelled at government

The UK has been accused of rolling back" moves to tackle modern slavery before a UN review of its human rights record on Thursday.

Anti-Slavery International said that at the time of the last universal periodic review (UPR) in 2017, the UK had recently passed the Modern Slavery Act and was seen by some as an exemplar, but five years later, with the next review imminent, it has regressed.