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15.01.2025 Roadmaps for reforms: Strengthening resilience to defence corruption in Nigeria, Tunisia, Niger and Mali

January 15, 2025 – Transparency International – Defence & Security (TI-DS) today launches a series of policy briefs examining the institutional resilience of the defence and security sectors in...

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14.01.2025 Transparency International’s Asia Pacific Chapters Unite for Defence Governance and Advocacy

Harnessing the power of collaboration, mutual learning, and knowledge exchange across our global Transparency International (TI) movement of over 100 chapters, Transparency International Defence & Security (TI-DS) launched Defending...

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10.12.2024 New research highlights urgent need for transparency in defence amid record global military spending

Further insights from Armenia, Guatemala, Malaysia, Niger, and Tunisia illustrate access to information challenges December 10, 2024 – New research from Transparency International Defence & Security (TI-DS) underscores the...

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29.11.2024 Event: Unlocking Access – Balancing National Security and Transparency in Defence

Transparency International Defence and Security (TI-DS) will launch our latest report Unlocking Access: Balancing National Security and Transparency in Defence. The report examines global practices of access to information,...

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21.11.2024 From risk assessment to action: Strengthening defence governance with our enhanced Government Defence Integrity Index

Corruption undermines the legitimacy and effectiveness of government institutions in all sectors, but it thrives in areas where large budgets intersect with high levels of secrecy and limited accountability,...

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03.11.2024 Advocating for anti-corruption in the defence and security sector: Insights from Geneva Peace Week 2024 

The Geneva Peace Week (GPW) is one of the important appointments on the international peacebuilding calendar, writes Francesca Grandi, our Senior Advocacy Expert. This year, it centred around the...

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11.10.2024 Lest we forget: Burkina Faso at a crossroads against human suffering and instability

Two years have passed since Burkina Faso witnessed its second coup within a year, on September 30, 2022, plunging the troubled nation into deeper instability and uncertainty.  Since these...

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09.10.2024 44th and 45th ASEAN Summits: Advancing regional stability and prosperity through enhanced defence governance

As members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) gather this week in Laos for the 44th and 45th ASEAN Summits, this blog by Yi Kang Choo, our...

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26.09.2024 Strengthening accountability in defence & security: Details of our upcoming access to information report

Access to information is a cornerstone of healthy, accountable and transparent societies and essential for democracy.    By improving the public’s ability to obtain and use government-held information, citizens are...

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17.09.2024 Event: The Missing Element – how addressing corruption can improve peace, security and development

Join us in New York for our Summit of the Future Action Days side event. Date: Thursday, September 19 Time: 09:00 EDT Location: Millennium Hilton New York, One UN...

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08.08.2024 A year after Niger’s coup: corruption, violence and human insecurity. What now?

A year on from the coup d’etat in Niger, Denitsa Zhelyazkova looks back at what has changed so far and what needs to happen to address corruption in the...

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01.08.2024 Militarisation, corruption, and democracy in Venezuela

Ara Marcen Naval examines how Venezuela’s military entrenchment in government and the economy undermines democracy and fuels corruption, and highlights the urgent need for transparency and civilian oversight.  ...

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