The U.N. refugee agency's chief Filippo Grandi and goodwill ambassador Cate Blanchett appealed to governments to end statelessness for 10 million people.
GENEVA (AN) — The U.N. refugee agency's chief Filippo Grandi and its goodwill ambassador, Cate Blanchett, appealed to governments on Monday to set aside nationalism and end statelessness for around 10 million people worldwide.
The campaign by the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR, sought to highlight the threats that rising nationalism accompanied by racism, xenophobia and intolerance pose to accomplishing a 2024 deadline for eradicating statelessness.
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