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Lavialibera is a bimonthly magazine that offers news and insights on mafias, corruption, the environment, and migration. Lavialibera was founded in 2019 by two Italian associations, Libera and Gruppo Abele, both created by don Luigi Ciotti, and it inherits the thirty-year experience of the monthly magazine Narcomafie, founded in 1993 after the mafia massacres in Sicily. 

Lavialibera is a partner of Kompreno, the European startup that wants to make quality journalism accessible by removing language barriers.

Ghousoon Bisharat, editor of +972 Magazine (photo by Francesco Cuoccio, International Journalism Festival 2025)

+972 Magazine, the information out of the chorus in Israel and Palestine

Founded by a collective of Israeli and Palestinian journalists, the online newspaper challenges the mainstream narrative and military censorship with investigations and reports in English from Gaza, the West Bank and Israel. "Going against the …

Paolo Valenti

Paolo ValentiRedattore lavialibera

In Southern Italy, culture remains inaccessible

In Southern Italy, culture remains inaccessible

Archaeological sites, theatres, museums and cinemas. In the southern regions of Italy, transport is poor and does not allow the inhabitants to enjoy the many cultural riches the area has to offer

Flavia Bevilacqua

Flavia BevilacquaGiornalista

One of the lands seized from the mafia in Calabria and assigned to the workers' cooperative, set on fire in Calabria

In Southern Italy, new attacks on cooperatives cultivating land confiscated from the mafias

In recent weeks, fires and thefts have hit some cooperatives working in fields seized from the cosche in Calabria. 'Attacks on social justice', claim the members, who ask institutions and civil society to defend 'a collective heritage'

Toni Mira

Toni MiraGiornalista e componente del comitato scientifico de lavialibera

Could ReArm Europe end up funding landmines?

Could ReArm Europe end up funding landmines?

As five EU countries and Ukraine are withdrawing from the treaty banning anti-personnel mines, the European Commission did not clarify whether the controverisal weapons will be eligible for funding under the new €800 billion defence plan

Paolo Valenti

Paolo ValentiRedattore lavialibera

Latina, 20 March 2014. Pope Francis meets the families of the innocent victims of the mafia (photo by Tita Raffetti)

Pope Francis and the mafias: gestures and words, excommunication and forgiveness

Meetings with victims' families, attention to confiscated property, support for women leaving criminal families, appeals for the 'conversion' of mafiosi: Bergoglio's pontificate has been marked by impactful speeches and concrete actions on the …

Toni Mira

Toni MiraGiornalista e componente del comitato scientifico de lavialibera

Informarsi è un gesto radicale

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