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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.

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Pfas are also in wine, Europe on alert

The Pesticide action network analysed 39 wines from ten European countries, including Italy. The results are worrying: since 2010, the levels of Pfas Tfa in some bottles have risen dramatically

Laura Fazzini

Laura FazziniGiornalista

Cortina d'Ampezzo, 4 October 2024. Monitoring walk on the sites of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, during Scuola Common. @Carlotta Bartolucci

Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympics, the organising companies don't like the civic monitoring

The publication of the second Open Olympics report on the transparency of the future Winter Games has provoked a reaction from the organising companies and some government representatives. Milan-Cortina Foundation also appeals to the Administrative …

Natalie Sclippa

Natalie SclippaRedattrice lavialibera

Paolo Valenti

The symbolic boat that was supposed to remember the massacre of migrants in the Mediterranean has been forgotten

10 years ago hundreds of migrants died in the greatest massacre of migrants ever in the Mediterranean Sea. The project to transform the boat into a monument to contemporary migration has never been completed.

Natalie Sclippa

Natalie SclippaRedattrice lavialibera

Paolo Valenti

Paolo ValentiRedattore lavialibera

Turin, 31 March 2022. The box in which prison inmates can post their 'domandine', written requests for interviews or everyday goods @Marco Panzarella

Telephones are used in Italian prisons because prisoners are isolated from the world

The trafficking of drugs and telephones in prisons leads some to call for more restrictions for prisoners. However, if they were allowed to phone relatives more often or use the Internet, these illegalities could be prevented. And one could focus on …

Andrea Oleandri

Andrea OleandriResponsabile comunicazione di Antigone

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Italy lightens restrictions on gambling favoring the football and the betting industry

The Senate passed a resolution reintroducing the possibility for teams to sign sponsorship agreements with betting companies. The football world, desperate for money, rejoices

Marco Panzarella

Marco PanzarellaRedattore lavialibera

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