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To mark the day when the whole world is celebrating women’s achievements and pressing for further progress in gender parity globally, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Cate Blanchett met with the UN’s Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees Kelly Clements to discuss...
Hello Blanchetters! Earlier today, UNHCR goodwill ambassador Cate Blanchett attended a session as part of the World Economic Forum in Davos. Watch full conversation below. Photos Video Screencaptures Cate also attended a panel discussion alongside UN High Commissioner for...
Hey Blanchetters! Earlier today, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Cate Blanchett hosted a live conversation in Facebook from the World Economic Forum. She spoke with refugee Aya Mohammed and former refugee JJ Bola about the power of storytelling. See the this...
Good evening! Cate Blanchett is hosting a Facebook Live Conversation on Monday 22 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. local time. On the same evening she'll receives the Crystal Award. [embed]https://www.facebook.com/UNHCR/photos/gm.323003711526142/10157310982888438/?type=3[/embed] UNHCR...
Hey Blanchetters! See the article published by UNHCR about Cate's visit to the agency's headquarters in Geneva yesterday. Goodwill ambassador Cate Blanchett ‘shaken and enriched’ by work with refugees During a visit to UNHCR’s headquarters in Geneva, Blanchett says...
Actor Cate Blanchett, musician Elton John and actor Shah Rukh Khan are the recipients of the 24th Annual Crystal Award, the World Economic Forum announced today. The winners will be honoured at the opening session of the Forum’s Annual...
Cate Blanchett is among the powerful hollywood women supporting the anti-harassment action plan announced last Monday called Time's Up. The project targets on actions to fight sexual assaults, harassment and inequality in the workplace. The initiative includes: — A...
Hello everyone! Do you want to meet you favourite star and do a good action at the same time? Now you can do it! With a donation to (RED), the organization founded by Bono and Bobby Shriver to fight...
Good evening. Cate Blanchett has recorded a video to support the ongoing postal survey to legalize same-sex marriage in Australia. More infos here
Good evening! The 31st Annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction is three weeks away but you can already start bidding to get an all-cast signed playbill of The Present. The donation is to support the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights...
Hey everyone! Cate is back to judge the Brotherhood of St Laurence’s literary award. The Hope Prize, short story competition, is open for entries until January 31, 2018. Read more below. BROTHERHOOD’S $10,000 HOPE PRIZE FOR WRITING RISES AGAIN...
German theater directors are calling for the release of detained Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov, who's been charged with embezzlement. Actress Cate Blanchett and filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff are among the signees. The list of prominent supporters backing Kirill Serebrennikov's release...
On February 20th, Cate Blanchett joined a concert at Stonewall in support of the Newtown Action Alliance, a “grassroots organization founded by Newtown residents after the tragic December 14, 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting” with the aim of...
Hello everyone! Cate has joined a new project*! [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq_0KeV4fFA[/embed] Cate Blanchett has given her voice to play an online character who will give people information about the national disability insurance scheme. Oscar winning actress Cate Blanchett has injected some...
Hello everyone! As we previously announced Cate Blanchett is supporting Newtown Action Alliance, an organization born to support the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, where 20 children and six educators were killed on...
On January 19th, Cate attended the Ghostlight Project, which objective is to "gather outside of theaters to create 'light" for dark times ahead, and to make, or renew, a pledge to stand for and projetect the values of inclusion,...
Dr. Munjed Al Muderis is an orthopedic surgeon who has pioneered a new prosthetic limb allowing amputees to start walking sooner. It's helped countless veterans. But in 1999, Munjed was ordered to cut off the ears of people fleeing...
Good morning! A mini update of the gallery: missing photos from Cate's humanitarian visit in Lebanon (2015) and new behind-the-scenes images from the recording of What They Took With Them, part of the #Withrefugees Campaign. - via UNHCR Gallery...
The UNHCR has published a new image from Cate's humanitarian trip to Jordan during the past spring. I've also added the screencaptures from the Facebook interview with Chris Hemsworth and the long version of What They Took With Them,...
Hi everyone! On Monday, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Cate Blanchett was interviewed by Chris Hemsworth to talk about the refugee crisis and her work with the UN refugee agency (UNHCR). The interview, live from Queensland/Gold Coast where Cate and Chris...