World of walls: How 65 countries have erected fences on their borders – four times as many as when the Berlin Wall was toppled – as governments try to hold back the tide of migrants | Mail Online

World of walls: How 65 countries have erected fences on their borders – four times as many as when the Berlin Wall was toppled – as governments try to hold back the tide of migrants | Mail Online

• Security fears and a widespread refusal to help refugees have fuelled a new spate of wall-building around the world
• A third of the world’s countries have completed or are building barriers – compared to 16 at the fall of the Berlin Wall
• They include Israel’s ‚apartheid wall‘, India’s 2,500-mile fence around Bangladesh and Morocco’s huge sand ‚berm‘
• Experts are dismissive, saying: ‚Their main function is theatre. They provide the sense of security, not real security‘