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Children: Goodwill Ambassador and Refugee Agency

children: I am a mother, and I saw my children in the eyes of every single refugee child I met, she said, according to The Chronicle Herald. I saw myself in every parent. In her very different role as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. refugee agency, Blanchett said she heard gut-wrenching accounts of torture, rape, people seeing loved ones killed before their eyes, and children thrown into fire and burned alive. How can any mother endure seeing her child thrown into a fire The two-time Academy Award winner said Their experiences will never leave me. Nearly all have been denied citizenship since 1982, effectively rendering them stateless, and they are also denied freedom of movement and other basic rights. The Rohingya have long been treated as outsiders in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, even though their families have lived in the country for generations. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.