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Information and awareness

ACAT-Luxembourg is actively committed to the protection of human rights through political action and public mobilisation. A central element of this commitment is its newsletter, which provides regular information on human rights violations and current campaigns, as well as responding to urgent appeals.
These appeals are addressed to political decision-makers and demand immediate action against torture, unfair detention conditions and death sentences.
Protest actions are another essential pillar of ACAT Luxembourg's work. These include petitions, public demonstrations and information campaigns aimed at drawing attention to specific cases of human rights violations. Using a variety of channels, ACAT reaches a wide audience and encourages them to become actively involved. The aim of these actions is to bring about concrete political change.
Through these varied initiatives, ACAT helps to raise public awareness of the importance of protecting human rights. People who want to support ACAT's activities can get actively involved by signing petitions, taking part in demonstrations or circulating the information in the newsletter.

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Education

Young ACAT - Stand up for Human Rights - is a section of ACAT-Luxembourg dedicated to raising awareness of human rights among young people from diverse backgrounds living in Luxembourg.

Young ACAT - Stand up for Human Rights :

  • creates safe spaces that give young people the opportunity to exchange in a creative way and to participate in intercultural encounters,

  • provides information on current human rights issues,

  • makes human rights visible,

  • offers activities for integration classes (CLIJA).

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Coexist

Under the banner of human rights, ‘Coexist’ encourages intercultural and interfaith dialogue.
On 10 December 2018, on the occasion of a ceremony celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 14 religious communities based in Luxembourg signed the declaration ‘Together for Human Rights’, pledging to strengthen their involvement in defending human rights.
Subsequently, ACAT-Luxembourg created secure meeting spaces: the Interfaith Café for interfaith encounters, the Coexister workshops for young people, and in 2024, the major choral and encounter project ‘Songs of Praise’ in collaboration with the INECC.
In 2025, as part of its ‘Meeting Spaces’ project, ACAT will offer safe spaces for exchange and expression, in particular the ‘Listening’ and ‘Shared Cultures’ groups, aimed at citizens (for example from Ukraine and Russia), in order to promote peaceful coexistence on the basis of human rights.

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Prayer

ACAT-Luxembourg sees prayer for victims of human rights violations and for the conversion of torturers as a way of taking a stand against torture and the death penalty.

ACAT-Luxembourg proposes :

  • taking part in a vigil for the victims of torture (every 26 June)

  • taking part in prayer on 10 December (International Human Rights Day) in collaboration with local churches

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