Chapter 7 at strengthening the protection dimensions and consistent responses across the region in line with human rights standards. INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS (IDPs) are persons or groups of persons who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of, or in order to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights or natural or humanmade disasters, and who have not crossed an internationally recognized State border. For the purposes of UNHCR’s statistics, this population includes only conflict-generated IDPs to whom the Office extends protection and/or assistance. The IDP population also includes people in an IDP-like situation. PEOPLE IN AN IDP-LIKE SITUATION refers to a category which is descriptive in nature and includes groups of people who are inside their country of nationality or habitual residence and who face protection risks similar to those of IDPs but who, for practical or other reasons, could not be reported as such. RETURNED REFUGEES are former refugees who have returned to their countries of origin, either spontaneously or in an organized fashion, but are yet to be fully integrated. Such returns would ideally take place only under conditions of safety and dignity. For the purposes of this report, only refugees who returned between January and December 2019 are included, although in practice, operations may assist returnees for longer periods. 66 RETURNED IDPs refers to those IDPs who were beneficiaries of UNHCR’s protection and assistance activities, and who returned to their areas of origin or habitual residence between January and December 2019. In practice, however, operations may assist IDP returnees for longer periods. INDIVIDUALS UNDER UNHCR’S STATELESSNESS MANDATE are defined under the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons as those not considered as nationals by any State under the operation of its law. In other words, they do not possess the nationality of any State. UNHCR statistics refer to people who fall under the organization’s statelessness mandate as those who are stateless according to this international definition. Data from some countries may also include people with undetermined nationality. These are people who lack proof of possession of any nationality and at the same time have or are regarded as having important links to more than one State. UNHCR also works with populations at risk of statelessness, but persons at risk of statelessness are not reported on under the statistical category of individuals under UNHCR’s statelessness mandate. OTHER GROUPS OR PERSONS OF CONCERN refers to individuals who do not necessarily fall directly into any of these groups above but to whom UNHCR has extended its protection and/ or assistance services, based on humanitarian or other special grounds. UNHCR > GLOBAL TRENDS 2019