United Nations

Organization's mission

Libera is a non-political, non-religious and not-for-profit Association which pursues civic, solidarity, and socially useful purposes. Libera pursues the following purposes: 

• Providing support and services to enhance associations, institutions, Schools, University and other collective subjects engaged in the fight against mafia and corruption and occult powers. Offering prevention activities, research actions of solidarity, assistance, especially to the victims of Mafias, and education to legality, active and responsible citizenship, and respect and protection of the environment. 
• Promoting the enforcement of Law 109/1996 as amended and supplemented, which provides for subjects identified by current legislation to reuse property seized and confiscated from mafias and corruption for public and social purposes. 
• Promoting and developing responsible, legal and sustainable youth autonomy paths. 
• Encouraging the creation of stable networking among all associations, bodies, universities and other groups committed for legality and against mafias in different civic and social sectors (of culture, economy, research, education, care, sports, environmental protection and sustainability in general), and promoting dialogue and collaboration, also in the form of services, among Libera members and institutions. 
• Achieving social justice, promoting any useful action to guarantee the full dignity of the person, as well as the protection of fundamental rights attributable to individuals, and promoting every action for the affirmation of a civil coexistence culture, for the full enhancement of equal opportunities and to welcome and value ethnic, religious, gender and cultural differences.
• Promoting actions to combat social and economic discrimination, to fight against all forms of social, human and educational poverty, and all forms of exploitation, from trafficking in human beings to corporal punishment and any other manifestation of discrimination that mortifies human dignity. 
• Promoting the development of non-violent strategies to fight against mafias' control over the territory and for the resistance to mafia-like permeation; promote a culture of liability against those who abuse their powers and breach the duties of their public office; develop non-violent strategies to fight and resist corruption.
• Promoting the establishment of an international network of associations and bodies committed to preventing criminality and illegality and promoting rights and social justice, for high -level development cooperation and international solidarity. 
• Keeping alive the memory and remembrance of the mafias’ innocent victims with the aim to raise awareness on the violence and inequalities of organized crime activities and to engage citizens in social justice actions

Areas of work

Corruption prevention
Asset recovery
Whistle blower protection
Organized property crime
Crime prevention
Victim protection
Youth-led /youth-focused

Areas of interest

Human trafficking
Smuggling of migrants
Environmental crime
Cybercrime
PVE/Terrorism Prevention
Bribery
Abuse of power
Drug trafficking and distribution
Illicit waste trafficking

Skills and Expertise Offered

Advocacy, including media relations
Monitoring and research
Sharing experiences and best practice
Joint-project submissions
Fundraising

Skills and Expertise Needed

Bringing forth/aiding judicial cases
Support with freedom of information requests
Connections with governmental counterparts

Engagement type

Libera has contributed in different ways to the work of UNODC and UNCAC. The following list presents the main actions and it is not exhaustive:

• Since 2010, Libera has participated in the Conferences of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption
• On 11-12 September 2014, Libera participated in the Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Asset Recovery in the expert group meeting on the management, use and disposal of frozen, seized and confiscated assets, held in Reggio Calabria, Italy
• The Academic Council on the United Nations System submitted the Doha Civil Society declaration. Libera was part of the Academic Council – Context of reference: Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Twenty-fourth session Vienna, 18-22 May 2015 Items 4 and 8 of the provisional agenda* Thematic discussion on follow-up to the Thirteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Follow-up to the Thirteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and preparations for the Fourteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
• On 24 February 2022, Libera participated in the session of the recalling paragraph 9 of General Assembly resolution 75/282 of 26 May 2021 to the present decision in the Ad Hoc Committee Cybercrime

Thanks to the institution of the UN Review mechanism, LIBERA is active part of Constructive Dialogue initiatives - specifically in the framework of Technical Assistance. 

Public-Private partnership initiative

No