UNHCR's mandate has gradually been expanded to include protecting and providing humanitarian assistance to whom it describes as other persons " of concern ," including internally displaced persons ( IDPs ) who would fit the legal definition of a refugee under the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and 1967 Protocol, the 1969 Organization for African Unity Convention, or some other treaty if they left their country, but who presently remain in their country of origin.

UNHCR's mandate has gradually been expanded to include protecting and providing humanitarian assistance to what it describes as other persons " of concern ," including internally displaced persons ( IDPs ) who would fit the legal definition of a refugee under the 1951 Refugee Convention and 1967 Protocol, the 1969 Organization for African Unity Convention, or some other treaty if they left their country, but who presently remain in their country of origin.

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