Who we are | What we do | Objectives | Statute
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FLARE - Freedom, Legality And Rights in Europe - is a network made of civil society organisations for the social struggle against mafias and transnational organised crime. Conceived by Libera, associations names and numbers against mafias and by Terra del Fuoco, and founded on June 10, 2008, at the European Parliament in Brussels, the FLARE Network is made of associations and NGOs from over 30 countries.
The FLARE Network is composed by more than 40 non-governmental organisations. They are active in fields such as youth promotion, fight against women and child sexual exploitation, environmental protection, human rights defense, fight against corruption, support to migrants and refugees. FLARE members come from the areas of Europe, Mediterranean basin, Russian Federation, Caucasus and Balkans.
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Born over the assumption that organised crime has long become a transnational phenomenon able to operate within territories and with people extremely different from each other, FLARE intends to represent an alternative model to tackle organised crime in Europe and neighbouring territories. By informing the European civil society about topics such as human trafficking, narcotrafficking, corruption and information, eco-crimes, money laundering and illegal weapons trade and by involving the network members, FLARE’s aim is to promote an alternative – however complementary – modus operandi to the one implemented by national institutions and law enforcement agencies for the fight against transnational organized crime.
Through the efforts of its members on their territories, FLARE is able to put in motion people from over thirty countries. They represent an outstanding tool through which assigning the European civil society a leading role in the fight against transnational organised crime.
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The FLARE Network aims at:
- raising awareness among European citizens about the diffusion and the influence of the organised crime phenomenon in Europe and in the surrounding territories through means of social events and by providing information materials;
- becoming a point of reference for European and non-European civil societies in supporting national and international institutions in the fight against transnational organized crime;
- having the European Parliament proclaim March 21st “European Day in memory of the victims of the mafias and for the commitment in contrasting organised crime“;
- requesting the European Commission and the Coucil of Europe to legislate in the matter of reuse for social purposes of property and goods confiscated to international criminal organisations
