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January and December 2016 are included, although
in practice operations may assist returnees for
longer periods.
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 2016. In practice, however, operations
may assist IDP returnees for longer periods.
Individuals under UNHCR’s statelessness
mandate are defined under international law 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
agency’s statelessness mandate as those who are
stateless according to this international definition,
but data from some countries may also include
people with undetermined nationality. UNHCR has
been given a global mandate by the United Nations
General Assembly to contribute to the prevention
and reduction of statelessness and the protection
of stateless persons. The agency also performs a
specific function, under Article 11 of the 1961
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, in
receiving claims from people who may benefit from
the statelessness safeguards contained in that
Convention and in assisting them and the States
concerned to resolve these claims.
Other groups or persons of concern refers to
individuals who do not necessarily fall directly into
any of these groups but to whom UNHCR has
extended its protection and/or assistance services,
based on humanitarian or other special grounds.
SOUTH SUDAN. A FARMER SIEVES SORGHUM
AT AKOBO MARKET, JONGLEI STATE.
The cost of sorghum recently increased by 30 per cent, making the grain
unaffordable to the conflict-affected population in South Sudan and to those returning
to Jonglei State. On arrival in Akobo, returnees receive humanitarian aid including blankets,
sleeping mats, plastic sheeting, mosquito nets and cooking sets from UNHCR’s partner Nile Hole.
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