The headlines here in the UK are full of grumbles about cancelled summer holidays. But across the world, restrictions on travel have been more disastrous still.
New research from the International Rescue Committee shows that COVID-19 is preventing people from fleeing violence, making routes even more dangerous for those who do flee, and pushing people to return home to unstable situations.
Let’s pause for a moment to think of the thousand Uzbek migrants stranded at the Russian-Kazakh border as temperatures soar, or the 5,000 Congolese refugees stranded at the border with Uganda.
