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Seventy years ago, 145 countries signed the 1951 Refugee Convention in the wake of World War II, when the displacement of millions of people across Europe shed light on the need for humanitarian protections for those forced to flee violence and persecution. Since 1951, 50 million people have been protected under the Convention’s umbrella. Yet, today, the consensus that forged the Convention and the international cooperation that underpins it are being increasingly undermined.

25-year-old Anxhela Gradeci is a junior doctor working on a covid ward in a North London hospital. She could have never predicted that her first year on the job would be during a global pandemic.