Cate Blanchett about Statelessness

UNHCR - Press Conference on Statelessness (Geneva, 7 September 2019)

Subject:Special Press Conference on Stateless Speakers:
• Cate Blanchett, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador (our video clip)

and Maha Mamo, formerly stateless refugee
and Carol Batchelor, UNHCR Special Advisor on Statelessness

In international law, a stateless person is someone who is "not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law". Some stateless persons are also refugees. However, not all refugees are stateless, and many persons who are stateless have never crossed an international border.
UNHCR calls for strengthening protection of refugees, IDPs, stateless . Human rights must be protected – goals include ending detention of child asylum-seekers, cutting numbers of refugees in limbo and eliminating all stateless by 2022.

Film Star Cate Blanchett Backs Drive to End Plight of 10M Stateless by backing a global campaign to end the plight of an estimated 10 million people with no nationality amid warnings rising xenophobia is stymieing efforts to meet a 2024 deadline for eradicating statelessness.

The double Oscar-winner spoke at a major meeting in Geneva aimed at persuading governments to dramatically escalate progress in the campaign called #Ibelong.

Blanchett's attendance will help boost attention on some of the world's most invisible people.

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