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Cate Blanchett. Photo: Collected

Cate Blanchett sees pandemic as chance for reflection on plight of refugees

In her UNHCR role, Blanchett has travelled to Lebanon, Jordan and Bangladesh, and has addressed the UN Security Council on the Rohingya refugee crisis.

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Bangladesh under 'no obligation' to accept stranded Rohingya refugees: Minister

German Chancellor Angela Merkel poses for a selfie with Anas Modamani, a refugee from Syria, after she visited the AWO Refugium Askanierring shelter for migrants and refugees on Sept. 10, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. Photo: Foreign Policy/Getty Images

The Arab spring changed everything—in Europe

A Kurdish refugee mother and son from the Syrian town of Kobani walk beside their tent in a camp in the southeastern Turkish town of Suruc on the Turkish-Syrian border on Oct. 19, 2014. GOKHAN SAHIN/GETTY IMAGES/Foreign Policy

Refugees can’t live in limbo forever

UNHCR urges countries to distribute aid among the displaced people

UNHCR urges countries to distribute aid among the displaced people

A worker from the municipality sanitizes Syrian refugee camp, as Lebanon extends a lockdown by two weeks to combat the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Marjayoun, Lebanon March 23, 2020/ Reuters

Coronavirus may spread like wildfire in world's refugee camps

More than 5000 doctors have signed a petition urging senators to save the medical evacuation laws.

Australia repeals law giving refugees onshore medical care

Migrants sleep at a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants next to the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece, September 1, 2019. / Reuters

Greece moves hundreds of asylum-seekers from crowded island camp