Claim: The home secretary is warning UN asylum rules have created 780 million refugees.
Fact-check: Have UN asylum rules 'created 780 million refugees'? - Full Fact
Verdict: this is misleading. the home secretary actually quoted a think tank's broad 2022 estimate for the number of people worldwide who could potentially meet the un's definition of a refugee were they to leave their countries, including a much smaller number who are actually refugees. this definition includes, for example, the entire population of afghanistan bar members of the taliban, al-qaeda and isis.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Hannah Smith
Date published: 2023-10-03T00:00:00