Africa Mining Watch: A new partnership to combat illegal mining through technology
Code for Africa, Pulitzer Center, and Earth Genome join forces to launch groundbreaking satellite monitoring platform Three leading organisations in data journalism, investigative reporting, and environmental monitoring are partnering to launch Africa Mining Watch. This innovative platform harnesses satellite imagery and machine learning to detect and track illegal mining operations across the continent. The collaboration […]
From Criminal to Community Wealth: The Social Reuse of Confiscated Assets
When organised crime steals from a community, it doesn’t just take money; it also takes hope, opportunity and futures. Across Africa, criminal networks are enriching themselves while communities are suffering. However, there is another way: transforming stolen wealth into shared prosperity, turning the tools of oppression into instruments of liberation. This is the promise of […]
Open Olympics 2026: Every Citizen Deserves to Know Where Public Money Goes
When €5.7 billion is invested in infrastructure for a sporting event, shouldn’t everyone have the right to know how that money is spent? According to the Open Olympics 2026 campaign in Italy, the answer is simple: everyone. Launched in 2024 by Libera and twenty other Italian civil society organisations, with support from One More Percent […]
PLACE: A Network for a New Generation of African Voices
A new generation speaks out The new generations of Africa no longer want to be portrayed as passive recipients of external interventions. They want to write their own story, free from the weight of the past and from the “economic interests” that continue to exploit the continent. PLACE: a grassroots network for change From this […]
21st March – Day of Remembrance and Commitment for the Victims of Organised Crime
Criminalised for Protecting, Silenced for Denouncing: The Right to Truth On 21st March, Libera and thousands of people across the world read aloud the names of innocent victims of mafias, corruption, and organised crime. Behind each name lies not only grief, but a deeper story: the attempt to criminalise or silence those who dared to […]
Hunger for Truth and Justice: A Global Agenda for Rights and Dignity
Rising from communities across the world, ‘Hunger for Truth and Justice’, is the hunger of those who have lost loved ones to violence, of those robbed by corruption, of those silenced for defending human rights. For 2025–26, this call becomes a global mobilisation uniting Europe, Africa, and Latin America via the CHANCE, PLACE, and ALAS […]
Tanzania: A Journey Through Memory, Commitment, and Community
From September 17 to 30, 2023, Tanzania hosted the first edition of Giramondi – Journeys of Memory and Commitment, promoted by Libera in collaboration with the local association Tengeneza Generation. This initiative is part of the wider international networks supported by Libera: ALAS (América Latina Alternativa Social) in Latin America and PLACE (Peace and Liberation […]
Congo’s Silent Genocide: From Lumumba to Today’s Crisis
For decades, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been the stage of one of the world’s deadliest and least-reported conflicts. In the eastern provinces of North and South Kivu, armed groups, state forces, and foreign interests have left civilians trapped in a cycle of killings, mass displacement, and sexual violence. Congolese activists and […]
Libera: Founding a Global Movement Against Organised Crime
Libera. Association, Names, Numbers Against the Mafia was founded in 1995 as the first civil society organisation to combat the Mafia. Born from one million signatures demanding mafia wealth be returned to communities, Libera transformed Italy. From the outset, it has challenged organised crime and corruption through social justice, seeking truth for innocent victims and […]
CHANCE: When European Civil Society Declares War on Organised Crime
CHANCE (Civil Hub Against orgaNised Crime in Europe) addresses criminal networks operating within some of Europe’s wealthiest democracies. Founded by Libera in 2019, CHANCE exposes the uncomfortable truth that the EU itself has become a profitable hunting ground for organised crime groups. Europol’s assessment reveals that 80% of criminal networks use legitimate European businesses as […]