Via IV Novembre 98
00187 Roma RM
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Libera is composed of more than 1600 associations, reunited under the same fight against mafias and for legality, justice and human rights ; Don Luigi Ciotti is the President of Libera, coworking with a Bureau and an Executive Board.
In 2018, Libera had at his disposal 4.557.425€, and spent 4.552.398. Libera is financed by private donations (46%) and by the numerous activities carried out (53%).
Libera’s action is built around five main actions : Memory and Commitment department, Education department, Confiscated assets department, International department and the Justice department. In each sector, Libera is in deep contact with actors at different levels, from a national to a local point of view : as an example, it has a seat as observer in the UN office on Drugs and Crime - ECOSOC Special Consultative Status.
Libera was born in 1995 with a clear objective: fighting against any form of mafia, of violence and criminality. But more importantly, it is to strive for : for the search of truths, for transparent politics, for citizenship based on equality.
This is made in three points : focusing on a continuity of action, since the birth of Libera to nowadays ; secondly, by being a positive actor, meaning our goal is not merely to indisgnate ourselves, but to propose, explain, and try to change minds and opinions. Finally, Libera is pride to tackle social perceptions of mafia, sharing responsibility in a holistic approach.
Libera works around five poles, as mentioned above:
Memory and Commitment department : building an “alive” remembrance of innocent
victims of mafias, together with their families, to maintain a shared and responsible memory of all people who lost their life for criminal violence ;
More specifically, we created a multimedial archive that collects the memory of all of those innocent victims of the mafia ; plus, Libera is at the origin of the definition of a National Day For Memory, on March 21st.
Education department : Libera is invested in the realization of an educative path which would teach democratic legality, starting from the importance of the recognition of environmental and human rights;
In detail, the main actions are interventions in schools of all grades and in the universities ; moreover, the Summer Camps are a direct way to sensibilize the youth to Libera’s actions and objectives.
Confiscated assets department : the promotion of the public and social re-use of confiscated assets is one pillar of our daily action, supporting associations and social cooperatives which would like to manage a confiscated asset and raising awareness on the importance of giving a second life to thousands of different assets for social purposes;
International department : Libera is enforcing transnational strategies for human rights defense and promotion of social justice through the development of 3 international networks: ALAS - América Latina Alternativa Social in Central and South America; CHANCE - Civil Hub Against orgaNised Crime in Europe at European level and a new-born African network; Libera works with more than 80 organisations around the world to enhance international tools of human rights defense and to promote the exchange of good practices on integral ecology and social justice.
Justice department : the legal office of Libera is giving assistance of all families of innocent victims of mafias during trials and it manages also all civic action proceedings for Libera; finally Libera has developed a new action specifically against corruption, through the promotion of civic monitoring of public administrations and a dedicated telephone line for those who wants to denounce corruption crimes.
In this case, Libera is always willing to be a civil party in legal proceedings, and organizes anti-corruption activities, as well as cooperation with the Italian Ministry of Justice.
Already in contact with many organisations or associations that are engaged in the same field ;
Dialogue with institutional and/or international partners ;
Empowering tools for a social integration in the Mediterranean starting from the promotion of social justice, peace and solidarity values.
We would like to strenghten activities on education, justice, dialogue, memory. It would be an opportunity to socialize the internation commitment of Libera and to consider common issues to share and to empowe together.