Credit: UNICEF Luxembourg

For UNICEF’s #GoBlue campaign, as part of World Children’s Day on 20 November 2020, public spaces and monuments in Luxembourg and beyond will light up in blue to draw attention to the main challenges and issues facing children around the world.

Every year on 20 November, to mark the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), UNICEF raises awareness around the most pressing issues facing children and invites children to actively participate. World Children’s Day shines a spotlight on Article 12 of the CRC, which guarantees every child has the right to be heard, to participate and to play a role in the civic life of their society.

“Like previous editions, World Children’s Day is a fun day with a serious message. On this day children take control to highlight their concerns and to celebrate their rights“, explained Sandra Visscher, Executive director of UNICEF Luxembourg. 

Among the hundreds of iconic places and monuments around the world that were illuminated in blue for World Children’s Day in 2019 were the Acropolis of Athens, the historic site of Petra, the bridges over the Bosphorus, the Philharmonie Luxembourg, the buildings of private companies such as SES and the town halls of 21 municipalities in Luxembourg.

From Monday 16 November 2020, more than 60 buildings, public places and monuments will be illuminated in blue for the UNICEF #GoBlue campaign. The public is invited to take a photograph of an illumination and tag UNICEF Luxembourg on Facebook or Instagram. The three best photos will win a selection of UNICEF gifts.

In Luxembourg, the following town halls, public places, monuments and buildings will be illuminated in blue, either on 20 November or throughout the week of 16-22 November 2020:

- Town Halls in Bettembourg, Contern, Ettelbruck, Flaxweiler, Frisange, Grevenmacher, Hesperange, Mertert, Mondercange, Mondorf-les-Bains, Niederanven, Pétange, Rumelange, Sandweiler, Sanem, Schuttrange, Strassen, Tuntange, Waldbillig and Weiler-la-Tour

- Cultural Centres Arthur Thinnes, « beim Nëssert », « A Rousen » and « Aalt Stadhaus »

- Churches in Mondercange, Pontpierre, Schuttrange and Waldbillig

- Primary schools in Grosbous and Munsbach

- Statue Trial

- Old Raiffeisen building in Nommern

- Chamber of Deputies

- Luxembourg National Railway Company (CFL)

- Markushäischen

- Philharmonie Luxembourg

- Meliá Luxembourg

- Spuerkeess

- Aquatower Berdorf

- BDO Luxembourg

- Château d’Urspelt

- State Street Bank

- ING Luxembourg

- Arendt & Medernach

- Château de Vianden

- Villa Vauban - Musée d’Art de la Ville de Luxembourg

- Château de Clervaux

- Wormer Koeppchen

- BGL BNP Paribas Kirchberg

- Gëlle Fra

- Monument Grande-Duchesse Charlotte

- National Solidarity Monument

- « Héichhaus » Alcide de Gasperi

- Bei der Douane, Mondorf-lesBains

- Château d’eau Dippach

- Various SES offices around the world

- Proximus

- Dragon Mersch

- Château de Munsbach

- The blast furnaces of the University of Luxembourg Belval Campus

- European Investment Bank (EIB) Monument

- Grand Theatre of the City of Luxembourg

- Lycée classique de Diekirch

- Cargolux Headquarters

- Maison de l’Avocat