Editing Cate Blanchett (section)

===Humanitarian===
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I am a mother, and I saw my children in the eyes of every single refugee child I met. I saw myself in every parent. How can any mother endure seeing her child thrown into a fire?
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Blanchett has been working with the [[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees]] (UNHCR) since 2015. In May 2016, the UNHCR announced her appointment as a global Goodwill Ambassador.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.unhcr.org/afr/news/latest/2016/5/5727776f6/cate-blanchett-appointed-unhcr-goodwill-ambassador.html |title=Cate Blanchett appointed UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador |last=Lewis |first=Claire |date=2 May 2016 |access-date=26 September 2017 |publisher=[[United Nations High Commission for Refugees]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170927112646/http://www.unhcr.org/afr/news/latest/2016/5/5727776f6/cate-blanchett-appointed-unhcr-goodwill-ambassador.html |archive-date=27 September 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> Blanchett, along with other celebrities, featured in a video from the UNHCR to help raise awareness to the global refugee crisis. The video, titled "What They Took With Them", has the actors reading a poem written by Jenifer Toksvig and inspired by primary accounts of refugees, and is part of UNHCR's "WithRefugees" campaign, which also includes a petition to governments to expand asylum to provide further shelter, integrating job opportunities, and education.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.unhcr.org/refugeeday/what-they-took-with-them/ |title=What They Took With Them – #WithRefugees |date=7 September 2016 |access-date=14 September 2016 |publisher=[[United Nations High Commission for Refugees]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919210154/http://www.unhcr.org/refugeeday/what-they-took-with-them/ |archive-date=19 September 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.unhcr.org/refugeeday/stories/ |title=2016 Stories – #WithRefugees |access-date=14 September 2016 |publisher=[[United Nations High Commission for Refugees]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919195822/http://www.unhcr.org/refugeeday/stories/ |archive-date=19 September 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Blanchett has undertaken missions with the UNHCR to [[Jordan]] in 2015, [[Lebanon]] in 2016 and [[Bangladesh]] in 2018 to meet with and highlight the issues faced by both [[Refugees of the Syrian Civil War|Syrian]] and [[Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh|Rohingya]] refugees in those areas.<ref>{{cite web|work=United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees|title=Cate Blanchett|url=https://www.unhcr.org/cate-blanchett.html|access-date=18 October 2020|archive-date=20 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020015647/https://www.unhcr.org/cate-blanchett.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In January 2018, she was awarded the Crystal Award at the [[World Economic Forum]] to honour her advocacy for refugees and displaced people around the world,<ref>{{cite web|title=Davos Awards: Cate Blanchett, Elton John Talk Refugee, HIV Crises {{!}} Hollywood Reporter|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/davos-awards-cate-blanchett-elton-john-talk-refugee-hiv-crises-1076942|access-date=18 October 2020|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=22 January 2018|archive-date=20 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020173146/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/davos-awards-cate-blanchett-elton-john-talk-refugee-hiv-crises-1076942|url-status=live}}</ref> and in August 2018, she addressed the [[United Nations Security Council]] about the atrocities committed against the [[Rohingya people]] in [[Myanmar]].<ref>{{Cite news|agency=[[Reuters]]|date=29 August 2018|title=Cate Blanchett tells of atrocities against Rohingya children – video|work=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2018/aug/29/cate-blachett-tells-of-atrocities-against-rohingya-children-video|access-date=18 October 2020|archive-date=19 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019133334/https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2018/aug/29/cate-blachett-tells-of-atrocities-against-rohingya-children-video|url-status=live}}</ref>

In July 2020, the Australian miniseries [[Stateless (TV series)|''Stateless'']], which was co-created and produced by Blanchett (and originally aired on the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC network]] in Australia), premiered on [[Netflix]]. The series was inspired by Blanchett's work with the UNHCR and focuses on four strangers whose lives collide at an [[Immigration detention|immigration detention centre]] in Australia. In Blanchett's words, the show's aim is to "build empathy and understanding for refugees, particularly those who have been and still are in detention."<ref>{{cite web|last=Refugees|work=United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees|title=Netflix releases Stateless, a new drama series produced by Cate Blanchett|url=https://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/2020/7/5f05893a4/netflix-releases-stateless-new-drama-series-produced-cate-blanchett.html|access-date=18 October 2020|archive-date=29 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929062159/https://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/2020/7/5f05893a4/netflix-releases-stateless-new-drama-series-produced-cate-blanchett.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

As an esteemed member of the performing arts community that was seriously [[Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the arts and cultural heritage|impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic]], and a person concerned about environmental and humanitarian issues, Blanchett contributed an essay to ''Upturn: A Better Normal After COVID-19'', a book published in 2020 about what could be done to improve society after the pandemic in her native Australia.<ref name="Blanchett 2020">{{Cite book|last=Blanchett|first=Cate|title=Upturn: A better normal after COVID-19|publisher=NewSouth|year=2020|isbn=9781742237206|editor-last=Plibersek|editor-first=Tanya|location=Sydney, Australia}}</ref><ref name="theguardian">{{Cite news|last=Blanchett|first=Cate|date=29 October 2020|title=Cate Blanchett: 'Covid-19 has ravaged the whole idea of small government'|work=The Guardian (Australia)|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/29/cate-blanchett-covid-19-has-ravaged-the-whole-idea-of-small-government|access-date=29 October 2020|archive-date=29 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029014810/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/29/cate-blanchett-covid-19-has-ravaged-the-whole-idea-of-small-government|url-status=live}}</ref> Blanchett said:{{blockquote|We engage with the performance of the gesture and the whole of it is greater than the sum of its parts. I think this need to gather is fundamental to who we are, and it has been stymied by Covid-19 but also underlined by it, and that need in us for community addresses the difficult lesson we have to learn: business is not government and government is not a business.<ref name="theguardian"/>}}

In May 2020, Blanchett was among the celebrities who read an installment of [[Roald Dahl]]'s children's fantasy novel ''[[James and the Giant Peach]]'' in aid of the global-non profit charity [[Partners In Health]], co-founded by Dahl's daughter [[Ophelia Dahl|Ophelia]], which had been fighting COVID-19 in vulnerable areas.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Alison|first=Flood|date=18 May 2020|title=Taika Waititi leads all-star charity Roald Dahl readings|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/18/taika-waititi-meryl-streep-benedict-cumberbatch-charity-roald-dahl-readings-james-and-the-giant-peach|access-date=15 October 2022|archive-date=25 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200825163039/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/18/taika-waititi-meryl-streep-benedict-cumberbatch-charity-roald-dahl-readings-james-and-the-giant-peach|url-status=live}}</ref>

In September 2020, Blanchett, [[Helen Mirren]], [[Eddie Redmayne]], [[Salman Rushdie]] and other figures of British cultural life support the protests of [[University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest|University for Theater and Film Arts (SZFE)]] students in Budapest against changes ushered Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government that forced a transfer of control of the public institution to a private foundation and a new structure to guide key decisions at the storied SZFE.<ref>{{Cite news |date=8 September 2020 |title=Angry Students Continue To Occupy Budapest Film School To Protest Changes |work=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/angry-students-continue-to-occupy-storied-budapest-film-school-to-protest-changes/30826591.html |access-date=4 September 2023 |archive-date=4 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230904174726/https://www.rferl.org/a/angry-students-continue-to-occupy-storied-budapest-film-school-to-protest-changes/30826591.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=7 September 2020 |title=Cate Blanchett, Helen Mirren és Eddie Redmayne is kiáll az SZFE mellett |url=https://m.hvg.hu/kultura/20200907_Cate_Blanchett_Helen_Mirren_es_Eddie_Redmayne_is_kiall_az_SZFE_mellett |access-date=4 September 2023 |website=hvg.hu |language=hu |archive-date=4 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230904174724/https://m.hvg.hu/kultura/20200907_Cate_Blanchett_Helen_Mirren_es_Eddie_Redmayne_is_kiall_az_SZFE_mellett |url-status=live }}</ref>