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05.12.2025 Upcoming event: Corruption and organised crime across the conflict cycle

Join us live from the from the 11th Conference of the States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption for our co-organised side event with Besa Global, UNODC, Global...

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29.10.2025 No Tricks, Just Truth: Why 25 Years On, the Women, Peace and Security Agenda Continues to Be Haunted by Corruption

By Leah Pickering, Programme Officer – Transparency International Defence & Security    “Trick or treat?”  It’s a familiar call every 31 October. But twenty-five years ago, another call echoed...

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23.06.2025 Not just a side issue: Linking anti-corruption, human rights, and security at the margins of the 59th session of the Human Rights Council

At the side of the 59th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, TI-DS and partners co-organised a panel discussion to discuss solutions to the vicious cycle of...

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16.04.2025 Press Release: Transparency International Exposes Corruption’s Hidden Role in Global Weapons Diversion in New Report

London – April 16th– As armed conflicts surge and organised crime activity rises, a new report from Transparency International Defence & Security (TI-DS) and Transparency International US (TI-US) reveals...

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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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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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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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31.07.2024 Corruption, the defence and security sector, and sexual and gender-based violence

This is a summary of a longer piece by our Defence & Security Gender Specialist, Sabrina White. You can read the full version here.   Corruption has gender dynamics...

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