The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation has been awarded this year’s European Citizen’s Prize.

Awarded every year by the European Parliament, the Prize recognises initiatives that contribute to cooperation and the promotion of common European values in each member state.

The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation was founded by the family of the investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia after she was assassinated by a car bomb on 16th October 2017.

It was set up to ensure that justice was served for her murder to safeguard her work and to strengthen civil society and the media.

The Foundation is also responsible for the Public Interest Litigation Network (PILN), which is Malta’s first-ever access to justice initiative, composed of lawyers and law firms offering legal representation to victims of discrimination, human rights violations, abuse of power and state collusion in criminal activity.

The scope of PILN is to create legal precedents to improve the good governance and human rights credentials of Malta, and to curtail abusive action by state through legal action.

The Malta Investigative Journalism Centre (MIJC) was also set up by the Foundation to train and equip independent journalists with the tools to investigate public interest stories.