Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation
Description
The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation works for justice for the murdered Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, and for journalists and journalism everywhere.
It pursues her unfinished investigations through the Daphne Project, created together with Forbidden Stories, so that the stories she was working on when she was killed are still told. The foundation follows the public inquiry into her assassination and pushes for the reforms it recommended. It also monitors vexatious lawsuits used against journalists and the protest memorial dedicated to her.
The foundation campaigns on human rights, criminal justice and anti-corruption issues in Malta. Its work includes pushing for stronger transposition of the EU Anti-Corruption Directive and greater transparency in the financing of Maltese political parties. It helped journalists regain access to Malta’s beneficial ownership register, and it has opposed government legislation it says would encourage bribery, corruption and organised crime.
The foundation is setting up an investigative journalism centre in Malta. The aim is to pool technology, data, knowledge and resources so that investigative journalism becomes cheaper and more effective for the journalists who use it.
Latest news
Only the guilty request a pardon for murder five times
Yorgen Fenech asked for a presidential pardon five times, four of those requests were while he was under arrest for Daphne’s murder. All his requests were rejected. Only the guilty request a pardon for murder five times. No one asks for a pardon for complicity in murder if they are innocent. 1...
20 Sep 2026Acquittal of Fenech, who additted complicity, denies Daphne the justice she deserves
Yorgen Fenech has been acquitted of Daphne’s brutal assassination, nine years after she was killed, denying her the justice she deserves. We remain grateful to everyone who worked to bring Fenech to justice, particularly our hardworking lawyers Therese Comodini Cachia and Jason Azzopardi, the...
2 Sep 2026The trial of Yorgen Fenech for Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination is showing in real time how corrupt influence enabled her murder. Yet today, exactly five years after the public inquiry exposed the fact and concluded that the Maltese State had failed to protect Daphne, most of its...
29 Jul 2026The EU Anti-Corruption Directive: Malta's transposition must deliver long-overdue reforms
EU Member States have until June 2028 to transpose the newly adopted Anti-Corruption Directive into national law. Malta must do more than simply meet the Directive’s minimum requirements. More advanced and long-overdue reforms had already been recommended by the 2021 report of the Public Inquiry...
22 Jun 2026What have parties said and not said about the public inquiry into Daphne's assassination?
In 2021, the public inquiry into the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia concluded that the Maltese state must shoulder responsibility for her death. The inquiry’s final report was delivered to Malta’s Prime Minister on 29 July 2021, yet most of its recommendations remain unimplemented...
28 May 2026Who's financing Malta's politics? Our proposed transparency reforms
Hidden money and behind-the-scenes influence warp political decision-making in Malta, handing disproportionate power to a select few while voters remain in the dark about who is shaping the policies and political priorities that affect their lives. To address this, we’re putting forward a set of...
12 May 2026
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